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Sentamu’S killer Still at largeBy The Muslim NewsFeatures Desk

A year after Sheikh Abdu Karim Sentamu was shot dead in the centre of Kampala, there is no clue on the perpetrator(s) of this crime, which shattered the Muslim community on Friday 20th April, 2012.

Sentamu, Uganda’s leading Islamic scholar, was gunned down in his car outside Masjid Noor, William Street in Kampala, shortly after delivering his regular evening Darsas (Islamic teaching sessions). The Muslim community was outraged. Even the characteristically reserved Prince Kassim Nakibinge (pictured right) raised his voice in demanding for the speedy investigation and apprehension of the suspects. Outspoken Sheikh Nooh Muzaata Batte vowed to soldier on in seeking for justice to Muslims, and not to be cowed down by the killing of an innocent man who had committed no crime. The Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, promised a swift investigation into the crime. The Muslim News has reliably learned that

the head of the investigations in the Sentamu murder is Beata Chelimo of the Special Investigations Unit, assisted by one ASP Wathum.

A leader of the so-called ‘Tabliq’ Muslims, Sentamu was 51 at the time of his death. He was a pillar in the Jumuiat Dawah As-salafiyya organisation and one of the most respected Muslim leaders in the country who appealed to all sections of the Muslim community. A humble and quiet personality with a penetrating look, his passion was teaching Islam to all. He found time to teach the most ignorant and the most educated men, women and even children. He knew no rich or poor Muslim – to him, all were equal before Allah and required the same true guidance of Islam. He devoted his life to research, teaching and writing. If the intention of the killer was to rob Uganda of an Islamic scholar, the objective was achieved. However, if the intention was to divide the Muslim community, the killer miserably failed.

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One Year Later

By Abubakar Sematimba

Adam Musa a lecturer at Islamic University in Uganda ( IUIU), has moved to sue the publisher of a local tabloid for defamation. In documents The Muslim News have seen, the Plaintiff is an adult male Ugandan of sound mind whose address of service for purposes of this suit is C/o Buwembo & Co. Advocates, Plot 48 Rashid Khamis Road P.O. Box 21841, Kampala.

The defendant is an incorporated limited liability company who is and was at all material times the proprietor, printer and publisher of the “Hello” Newspaper, a paper having a very wide circulation and readership throughout the country.

The Plaintiff brought this suit against the Defendant for damages arising from libel contained in the defendant’s Hello Newspaper story published on page 27 of the Friday, March 15 – March 21, 2013 issue.

The facts giving rise to the Plaintiff’s cause of action arose as hereunder:

a) On or about the 12th day of March 2013, in its Hello Newspaper at page 27, the defendant did print and publish or caused to be printed and published of the

plaintiff a false and malicious story entitled;“IUIU Liquour Hardened Dons”. “………..Today we unveil some of the Islamic University In Uganda (IUIU) lecturers who have vowed to drink either until their throats get blocked, or until Uganda runs out of drinks. Here they are; Adam Musa: He lectures on both Kampala and Mbale campuses of IUIU and when he leaves Kampala for Mbale he makes stopovers for drinks along the way. One day when he had returned from one of his trips from Kampala, a student at his faculty remarked. “This don smells like my father”

b) The Newspaper story alleged that the plaintiff has vowed to drink either until his throat gets blocked, or until Uganda runs out of drinks.

c) The Newspaper story further alleged that the plaintiff, when he leaves Kampala for Mbale he makes stopovers for drinks along the way.

d) It was further alleged in the story that the plaintiff turns up for lectures while drunk and smelling alcohol.

The plaintiff categorically denies the contents of the said story; that he is a liquor hardened don and that he has vowed to drink

either until his throat gets blocked, or Uganda runs out of drinks, that he turns up for lectures while drunk and smelling alcohol. The plaintiff further denies that he makes stopovers for drinks along the way.

The said Newspaper story was thus highly defamatory of the plaintiff in that the plaintiff has, in consequence, been seriously injured in his reputation, credit, character, employment and marriage; and has been brought into public scandal, odium, contempt, and ridicule in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally. The plaintiff has further suffered the near break of his marriage.

Notice of intention to sue was duly served on the Defendants but ignored.

The plaintiff prays that judgment be entered against the defendant for;-Compensatory damages; exemplary damages; permanent injunction to restrain the defendant by itself, its agents and / or servants from further writing, printing and publishing of the plaintiff and similar libelous matters;costs of this suit and any other relief that the honourable court may deem fit in the circumstances.

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Njuba (Right) at the launching ceremony in Khartoum

MP Kevin Taaka chatting with Frank Muhumuza at the launch

By Swaib K. Nsereko

KHARTOUM – The Ugandan political class has welcomed the initiative by their Sudan counterparts for Africa to establish a new body to undertake joint projects in confronting challenges facing the continent.

A delegation from the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Saturday flew to Khartoum last week to be part of the historic occasion marking the launch of the continental Political Parties Council (PPC). It comprised the Leader of Opposition Nandala Mafabi, Mzee Sam Kalegga, and MP Kevina Taaka, among others. Frank Muhumuza, the First Secretary at the Ugandan Mission in Khartoum represented the government.

“We were not told of people attending from home, but were invited as an Embassy,” said the Ugandan envoy, Muhumuza. The function was presided over by Sudan President, Gen. Marshall Hassan al-Bashir, who later hosted guests at his palace to a sumptuous dinner.

According to Khartoum authorities, at least two political parties — the one in government and the largest

opposition party, were invited from each African country. A total of 35 countries were represented at the launching ceremony that later constituted into the general assembly.

Explaining the significance of the initiative, Sudanese ruling party official Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie, said it’s intended to offer a platform for the continent’s wider political spectrum to share common ideas of harmonising Africa’s resources for the benefit of Africans.

He said the current Africa’s economic and social transformation is a surprise subject globally and if Africans don’t develop a new paradigm, risk recolonisation by former masters.

“The new body will not duplicate any roles of already existing bodies; it will rather identify challenges like health security, food security and share experiences of confronting them,” explained Sudan investment minister Dr. Mustfa Osman Ismail.

Will it stand the test?Such as the above concern were evident where Africans are remarkable in mooting big ideas but thin in offering commitment to deliver.

But the enthusiasm in Khartoum from individual delegates who invested in their air fares suggested a rare commitment this time round.

“First as Sudan we are not going to contest for leadership of the group; we just offered to host its establishment. So there is no sense of selfishness. And if Gaddafi had done the same rather than seek to lead the continent, the African political unity could have been achieved long ago,” said Dr. Mustafa.

“…If we suggest to first tackle a project like health security, then food, who is not interested; who will not join in?” he asked?

“This provides opportunity for a losing party to also play some continental role. We no longer want a situation where after losing an election, a party becomes irrelevant,” explained Zambia’s ruling party Secretary-General Wynter Kibamba.

The above idea is not entirely new. It is already functional and extremely successful in the sub-continents of Asia and Latin America. It is actually credited for shaping total independent political and economic decisions of countries in those places.

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The Muslim community got more united than ever before as witnessed by the throngs of Muslims from all groupings - who walked several kilometers to Nkowe Muslim cemetery where he was laid to rest on Saturday 21 April 2012. Cars stretched over three kilometers - the cemetery could only be reached by foot. The calculated misinformation by some quarters to link Sentamu’s death to the ongoing leadership wrangles in the Muslim community quickly fizzled out and were dropped, just as fast. Sentamu was a unique uniting factor in Ugandan Muslim issues and was above the display of petty differences.

Again, if the objective of the killer was to destroy his mother organisation, Jumuiat Daawah As-salafiyya, the killer(s) also failed miserably. The organisation has only increased in its effectiveness, reach and resolve to carry on Sentamu’s teaching mission forward. Close to the establishment and widely believed to be Kale Kaihura’s blue eyed Muslims, with several mosques and schools under its supervision countrywide, the late Sentamu’s organization could easily be the most organised Muslim group in the country today. The organisation was subjected to further test when its Amir (Supreme Leader) Sheikh Abdul Hakim Sekimpi passed away, in still unclear circumstances, exactly three months after the shooting of Sentamu on 19th July 2012. Sheikh Sekimpi was succeeded by Sheikh Yunus Kamoga. Sheikh Mahmoud Kibaate was chosen to replace him as Deputy Supreme Mufti at Kibuli.

Sentamu’s life was one of trials and tribulations. He had been arrested before in 1998 on charges of treason along with his close associate Mustafa Bahiga the current District Amir, Kampala on which he was acquitted in November 2000. In an interview with The Muslim News, Bahiga described Sentamu as a rare scholar, an irreplaceable jewel who loved peace, his religion and country. After his release in 2000, Sentamu went into self exile in London from where he was deported under unclear circumstances. Back in the country with a just pair of trousers and a T-shirt on his body, Sentamu re-organized his life and got down to his first passion - teaching Islam to Muslims. It is possible that he knew, especially since his mysterious deportation from the UK, that his life was in danger. He used to sleep in different places and was actually staying alone in each of them.

He rarely moved late at night and was not fond of receiving visitors at night. In one of his sermons, he once talked of a plan of targeted killings of prominent Muslims in East Africa. Four months after his assassination, on 27 August 2012, another Muslim cleric Rogo was shot dead by unnamed assailants in Mombasa Kenya, as he was driving his wife to hospital. Rogo was shot more than seventeen times in the head and died instantly, while his wife, Khaniya Said, was shot in the leg. Human Rights Watch reported, based on the witnesses’ reports, that an unmarked vehicle overtook the car Rogo was driving with six passengers on Malindi road, outside Mombasa, and that two gunmen opened fire on the car.His father,

Abdalla Ali, and five-year-old daughter, who were also in the car, were not injured. Said reported that a car from behind aimed at Rogo and shot him on his right side. She also accused the police of killing Rogo, and told police that had come to assist her that “we don’t want a post-mortem or any help from you.” No group claimed the responsibility of the attack. Kenyan security officials claimed that Rogo was killed by his rivals and that the riots that occurred after his death were pre-planned.

Unlike Ugandan Muslims who just buried their dead scholar, after the killing of Rogo, Mombasa witnessed violent demonstrations, claiming four people’s lives and wounding many others as well as damaging three churches. Abdullahi Halakhe, the Kenya analyst of the International Crisis Group, suggested that although the assassination of Rogo triggered the unrest, there were much deeper issues at hand. Richard Lough further argued that the riots revealed deep social, political and sectarian divides experienced in Kenya.

On the day of Rogo’s death, his supporters consisting of over 2,000 Kenyans protested his assassination in Mombasa, especially in the Majengo area, where Rogo’s Musa Mosque was situated. A civilian was killed and two churches were looted. Some of the mob blamed the Kenyan authorities for the killing of Rogo. Aggrey Adoli, a police commander, said that the mob had weapons and machetes and were burning police vehicles. Adoli added that many shops were closed and people were leaving Mombasa, but that the police regained control of the city after a few hours of “anarchy.” The highway from Mombasa to Malindi, a tourist centre, was closed by protestors who burned tyres, but they were eventually scattered by police

who fired tear gas. Streets that normally bustled with shoppers and tourists were empty.

The following day clashes continued in Mombasa. Two prison officers were killed in the ensuing riots. Anti-riot police fought against stone-throwing youths as police fired tear gas and warning shots. The protesters barricaded streets with burning tyres in Majengo, which is predominantly Muslim. The mobs also taunted police who arrested protestors and marauded around the city centre, while shopkeepers reported looting in certain areas.

The rioters had fired at police with machine guns before hurling a grenade at police officers, which resulted in two deaths. The police said that at least 16 officers were wounded in the attack, which took place in Kisauni, another predominantly Muslim area. In addition, two more churches were set on fire in Kisauni and roads were barricaded with burning tires. Benedict Kigen, a senior police intelligence officer, said that the rioters are “pure criminals, and now terrorists are infiltrating within to launch grenades at us”.

On 29 August, 2012, Kenyan Coast Regional Prisons leader James Kodiany announced that two more prison officers had succumbed to their injuries from the riots the previous day. Security officials argued that their control in Mombasa was restored. However, it was also added by security officials that tensions were still high. There were reports of unrest in the Majengo and Kisauni districts of Mombasa and four policemen were badly wounded in the late hours in the city.

One year since the assassination of Sheikh Sentamu, the Muslim community, his family, friends and associates still peacefully await a definitive word from the Police on the

case. Only one arrest was made and the suspect one Arone Madanda, 34, according to sources close to the investigations, the suspect was more likely to be conman who was trying to obtain money from a local Muslim businessman to sell him an illegal gun. In a conversation with the businessman Madanda had bragged that he was so good in the business of getting guns - he was actually the one who ‘had killed Sentamu’ and that he was still owed ‘Shs. 20million for the job’. It was this businessman who tipped the police. This was a dramatic allegation that prompted the police to take Madanda for a mental checkup. Sources indicate that he was found sane and fit for trial. Madanda was produced before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s court on September 21, 2012 and charged with murder. According to police documents, the 34-year-old claimed to be an unemployed telecommunications engineer and a police cadet drop out. Nothing has been heard of the case since then.

In essence therefore Sentamu’s real killer is still at large – a lone hit man who was reported to be wearing a back T shirt and scarf on his head at the time of the shooting. In the preparation of this feature, on April 28th 2013 The Muslim News emailed the Inspector General Kale Kayihura asking for his comment on the progress of the case. The IGP is a regular contributor to the Ugandans-at-Heart google group and is well known for his prompt responses. By press time, no response had been received from him.

The President, commenting on the shooting pointed to an intelligence report he had, that indicated that Sheikh Sentamu was in contact by telephone with ADF rebel leader Jamil Mukulu in the Democratic Republic of Congo where ADF is suspected to have bases. How this could be related to the shooting is still a mystery.

Sentamu is survived by four children; Shafie, Sentamu, Rashida and Bahia. As the seemingly hopeless pursuit of the killers goes on, and as the Ugandan Muslims keep steadfastly patient with the authorities, the Muslim community has another obligation - to pray for the soul of Abdu Karim and to take care of the welfare of his family.

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Maj. Gen. Kayihura promised a swift invest-gation into Sheikh Sentamu’s death, but no report yet released

Sentamu, Uganda’s leading Islamic scholar, was gunned down in his car outside Masjid Noor, William Street in Kampala

Sheikh Nuuhu Muzaata vowed to pursue justice

sentamu: Killer still at large one year later

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Sentamu is survived by four children; Shafie, Sentamu, Rashida and Bahia. As the seemingly hopeless pursuit of the killers

goes on, and as the Ugandan Muslims keep steadfastly patient with the authorities, the Muslim community has

another obligation - to pray for the soul of Abdu Karim and to take care of the welfare of his family.

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By Umar Weswala

The State Minister for Culture and Gender, Hon. Rukia Isanga Nakadama has urged Muslims in Mayuge district to make their land more productive by using it collectively instead of splitting it up into small individual units.

The minister who is also the Woman Member of Parliament representing Mayuge District was speaking recently during a graduation ceremony of one Abu Twahiyu Nakwasi in Mayuge-Busakira.

Nakadama said that in order to realize economies of scale, Mayuge Muslims needed to team up as families or communities and work together for their own good and for the good of the district.

“As a community that has many children, we should adopt farming systems that will enable us to feed, dress, treat and educate our children up to University” she said.

She also urged her electorate to be job creators saying that government jobs are few and highly competitive yet a well-established farmer can earn more than a government employee.

The guest of honor at the graduation ceremony was H.E the Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje.

By Aciga Abdallah

Yumbe Muslims are looking forward to next week’s Uganda Muslim Teachers Association annual convention 2013. The three-day event scheduled for May 9th to 11th will be held at Aringa Secondary School in Yumbe District.

The theme for this year’s convention is “25 years of UMTA: Making our work bigger, better, more professional and more rewarding”.

Speaking to The Muslim News, Brother Ijosiga Abdulwahid, the Personnel Officer Yumbe District, said Muslims in Yumbe are eager for the convention, which is set to deliberate on how to improve education amidst the immense challenges in the Muslim fraternity.

In a message his message inviting Muslims from all over the country to attend the convention, Brother Isa J. Matovu the UMTA Executive Secretary said:

“Our brothers in West Nile are in high spirits to host us –they feel our going their will redefine Muslim education through the different deliberations and best practices that will be shared by you and other experienced education icons.”

Brother Isa added that “All we need is to be part of the solution to the problems affecting this Ummah rather than being problems to the solutions of the problems of this Ummah and as you all know, education is the most critical resource for developing our Ummah therefore investing and participating in its development is the best resource we can ever give to this.”

Muslims make up 80% of the total population of Yumbe district.

Muslim Youth Hold Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening

Stop Land Fragmentation, Hon. Nakadama tells

Mayuge Muslims

Yumbe Ready for 2013 UMTA Annual Convention

Muslim NGO Donates Clothes to Tororo Children

Parents pick clothes for their children during the FAST Uganda activity

Janat Najjuma displays the Cancer awareness reports during the screening exercise in Kayunga

Hon. Nakadama speaking to Mayuge residents

By Ibrahim Asante

Tororo – For Allah’s Sake and Trust (FAST) Uganda is a Muslim founded NGO whose work is being appreciated by residents of Tororo District especially Muslims. Last week, it donated clothes to hundreds of children in the rural communities of Tororo District.

According to Brother Rashid Raganyi, the Programme Manager at FAST Uganda, the activity was one of the several activities

that the organization has been implementing since its formation in 2011.

He told The Muslim News that FAST Uganda identified the problem of lack of proper clothing among children in Tororo during its ongoing outreach programs.

“Some of the clothes were bought and some collected from well-wishers” said Raganyi adding that “we give not because we have too much but because we have a big heart”.

Raganyi says that when you dress a child reaffirm his dream to also work hard to dress the community one day.

FAST Uganda promotes the under- developed communities in Tororo through support of health, education, household incomes, counseling programmes (campaign to prevent domestic violence) and Islamic Dawah through sensitisation meetings, Training workshops, interest free loans and radio programmes.

By Fatuma Nabukenya

KAyUNgA - NAzIgoIslam Care Uganda – ICU, a Muslim founded Non-governmental organisation based in Kampala has embarked on a cancer awareness campaign in Kampala and the surrounding districts.

It recently held its second cervical and breast cancer screening exercise targeting women in Kayunga District – Nazigo, during which over 100 women were screened and given free medication.

Speaking to The Muslims News shortly after the exercise, the ICU Programme Manager, Dr. Najjuma Janat, said the first exercise targeting women was held in Kampala district at Swiddiq Mosque.

She said that the event involved a learning session which focused on the causes and predisposing factors to cancer of the cervix like; Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). This she said was conducted in partnership with medical specialists from Mulago National Referral Hospital.

“The screened women were given free medication in relation to their lab results. Free mouthwash medication bottles were also offered to all the women who were screened” said Janat.

Asseg Baig, Eye witness accounts of massacre in Burma. Assed Baig is a journalist who secretly visited Meiktila, a town in Burma that was home to the massacre of Muslims by extremist Buddhist mobs. Baig is a professional journalist who was sent to Burma with the help of donations by concerned Muslims. Here is his account of what happened in Meiktila, as told by several Muslims were involved in the massacres

Reports of what actually took place in the Central Myanmar town of Meiktila are still emerging. Muslim refugees are beginning to speak out and tell the world of what they witnessed with their own eyes.

“They beat them in front of me. I was watching. I can still see it.” Noor Bi is crying as she describes the moment when she saw her husband and brother murdered in front of her eyes as she fled Meiktila.

This latest attack on Muslims came on the 20th of March in Meiktila, Burma, which is just 50 miles from the Burmese capital and is a military base.

The mob outnumbered the police, and officers were unable to protect the Muslim minority of the

town. The 26-year-old Noor is now a widow with a 3-year-old son. As she told her story and what she witnessed, the people around her in the make shift refugee camp now set up in the grounds of a Muslim school in Yindaw, began to cry. Grown men sobbed at hearing her ordeal.

“They beat them and beat them; they were still alive when they threw my husband and brother in the fire. They were burnt alive.” Tears stream down her face as she continues to relay her account.

“Once they had finished, they told us to bow down to them. We bowed down towards Mecca, but they started to beat us.” Noor pauses and then seems reluctant to tell the next part of her ordeal.

“The police asked the monks and the mob to stop beating us and that they would ensure that we would bow down to the monks.” The faces of the other people listening clearly show their disgust at what she described.

“They made us worship them. That is why we lived on that day,” she looks to the ground, not wanting to make eye contact with me or anyone else. No one blames her; Muslims only bow down in prayer to God, but this was life or death. The IDPs around her, men and women, young and old, all of them Muslim, understand this more than anyone.

The monks that asked to be

worshipped were young. Noor Bi was even beaten while she was holding her 3-year-old son, causing her to drop him. Her son was saved by a Buddhist woman who sheltered him and took him to safety.

The 15 women were put on a police truck and taken to a police station. The police asked them to stay quiet, as they needed to go back and rescue others.

Noor Bi’s account is not isolated. Sixteen-year-old Muhammed (name changed for his safety) saw his friends killed in front of his eyes.

Muhammed and his fellow students went into hiding when Buddhist monks burnt down their boarding school. It was 9:30 a.m. the following morning when the police arrived in three trucks to

escort the students to safety. Muhammed and the students

were asked by the police to get on the police trucks. There was only one problem: a mob stood between them and safety.

“I felt sick the last time I recalled this.” Muhammed’s eyes look tired. He tells me he is not sleeping well and had a nightmare only last night. “The Buddhists refused to let us walk through their area, even with the police escort. We had to try and walk around; there were not enough police to protect us.” His eyes are full of pain.

“We had to put out hands over our heads and bow our heads and pay homage to the monks as we walked,” Muhammed said and raises his hands above his head joining his palms together

to illustrate what they were forced to do. “They began to attack us. I saw my friends murdered.”

“They dragged Abu Bakr away as he attempted to get on the truck, and began to beat him; he was still alive when they threw him in the fire. He stood back up, and then they stabbed him in the stomach with a sword, twisting it whilst it was in him.” He takes a deep breath, his hands tensed and grasping each other.

“I can still see and hear it.” His family stands around attempting to give him support; his uncle rubs his hand down his back, trying to ease the suffering this young boy has had to endure. Muhammed told me that there were a few new faces within the mob; he described them as having long red hair.

100 people began that walk to the police trucks. By the end of it, 25 students and four teachers were murdered, beaten, stabbed and burnt alive. Seventy-one survived but are mentally scared for life. There are pictures that corroborate the accounts.

There are many other eyewitness accounts of the horror that took place in Meiktila; they are slowly reaching the world. We must ensure they are not lost.

For more information on the ongoing massacres of Muslims in Burma (Myanmar) contact:

info@burmamuslims.org

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By Lewis Garland

A year ago, on 20 April 2012, a 2,000-strong mob led by Buddhists monks stormed a mosque in Dambulla, central Sri Lanka, during Friday Prayers. They damaged both the building and property within it, including religious artifacts and texts. The Mosque had already been fire-bombed the previous evening. The mob claimed that the Mosque was situated within a sacred Buddhist area and had been constructed illegally. The reality was that the Mosque, a small, corrugated iron structure reachable only via a narrow path, barely visible from the street, had been used by the local Muslim community for over half a century without question or incident.

I was living in Sri Lanka at the time and after visiting the site of the Mosque a few days after the event, I began to follow the repercussions of the incident. What I found most shocking was that these attacks seemed to occur not only with absolute impunity but with at least some degree of official support. These attacks were committed in the presence of the police and yet no action was taken to apprehend the culprits. Moreover, two days after the incident, an order came from the Prime Minister for the Mosque to be demolished.

One year on, such instances, coupled with muted official responses, have long stopped being shocking and have become

an insidious norm. Anti-Muslim fervour is now rife among the majority Sinhalese population, stirred and fed by the firebrand propaganda of extremist Buddhist-Sinhalese nationalist groups such as the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) – The Buddhist Strength Force.

Since the Dambulla incident, Sri Lanka’s Muslim community have been subjected to repeated attacks, including rotten meat being thrown into mosques during prayers, mosques being tagged with obscene graffiti, death threats, arson and Muslim-owned businesses being vandalized by marauding mobs. These attacks briefly reached international attention in March 2013 afterfootage emerged of a monk hurling stones at a Muslim-owned clothes shop in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, in full view of the police and media.

These attacks have been driven by a series of high-profile hate campaigns targeting Sri Lanka’s Muslim community and their practices. As Javid Yusef, founding Secretary General of the Peace Secretariat for Muslims in Sri Lanka explained to me, the BBS have manufactured ‘distrust of the Muslims among Sinhala Buddhists by spreading untruths, half truths and lies among the populace’. These have included advocating a ban on both Hijab and Halal meat certification and campaigns encouraging the Sinhalese community to boycott Muslim-owned

shops and businesses (based on claims ranging from the false: that shop-owners have been concertedly converting their female Buddhist employees to Islam, to the nonsensical: that shop-owners were giving free miscarriage-inducing sweets to their Sinhalese customers).

The BBS has frequently advocated vigilantism and in one rally which boasted a crowd of over 10,000, the organization’s secretary, Gnanasara Thero, called on followers to become ‘an unofficial civilian police force against Muslim extremism’.

In the midst of this ever escalating Islamophobic sentiment, the Sri Lankan government, whilst not officially patronising the BBS and its associated Sinhala-Nationalist mobs, has shown few signs of disowning the group or taking any serious action against it. The police have been shown, time and time again, standing by as stone-throwing mobs attack Muslims and Muslim property. On the few occasions in which arrests have been publically called for, the accusations have been dropped prior to any arrests taking place. Moreover, the government has bowed to pressure over the Halal issue resulting in an effective ban on Halal certification.

Perhaps more worrying is the increasing evidence linking the BBS with those inhabiting the highest echelons of power. On 9 March 2013 the Buddhist Leadership Academy of the BBS was officially opened

by Defence Secretary (and brother to the President) Gotabaya Rajapaksa with the ominous words: ‘The venerable monks always came forward to protect our country, race, religion and culture.’

The extent of the Sri Lankan government’s complicity in whipping up Islamophobic sentiment remains unclear. However, what is clear is that the government is acutely aware that supporters of the BBS make up a core element of its primarily Sinhalese-Nationalist support base and as a result is willing to pander to the group’s increasingly repugnant demands.

What is also clear is that these venomous attacks on the Muslim community have opened new wounds in a country still riven by deep inter-communal divisions and distrust after 27 years of civil war. In Javid Yusef’s words, there is now a ‘fear psychosis among the Muslims... relations between the [Sinhalese and Muslim] communities have been dented to such an extent that a great deal of work has to be done to repair the damage.’

Lewis Garland is freelance journalist and social justice activist. He has written on a range of issues including the rights of asylum seekers and returnees and post-conflict reconciliation in Sri Lanka. He previously worked for the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka.

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The S4 examination season for academic year 2013 has kicked off in earnest. This April candidates

started to register with the various examination centers (schools) accredited by the official examinations agency, Uganda National examinations Board (UNEB).

But examination fees levied by schools is one of the various forms by which schools fleece poor parents with sheer impunity. The other is the school regulations determined by the school managers often without regard to the parents’ input.

When teachers complain of the meager wages, parents tend to sympathize with them and even attend their symposia to address the imbalance. But why should school managers conspire to cheat parents?

Currently, UNEB has set a standard fee for the potential S4 candidates, which officially ranges between sh70,000 to 80,000. To alter this fee, UNEB will only do it as penalty for late registration; first by 50% and in extreme cases by 100%.

But before we get there, school managers have already ‘penalized’ poor parents. Nearly all of them are asking for more than 100% the official UNEB fee. This they do without consulting even the school PTA! And often, hiked fees are not on the regulations signed by the parent on enrolling the child into that school.

Parents and guardians are today being asked to pay between Sh150, 000 to Sh200,000 depending on the intensity of thirst for money by the school manager. And worse, some managers will disappear with all the money and the registration forms. Or at times, even the students inflate the figures reported to their guardians—making the parent suffer even more.

For all these cases, the parent has suffered in silence - unaware of where to appeal for justice. If parents don’t meet these costs, the school managers will mercilessly dismiss the student who will consequently miss the exam, and put all the investment in that student to waste. Yet, if the parent was asked to pay the official fee and may be a reasonable 10 or 20 percent extra pay for the examination centre, that child could have written the exams.

And there times when the school determines to expel a student - allegedly for flouting set regulations. Now, these regulations could sometimes even override the National Constitution and no one will raise a finger.

For, example, when a guardian chooses to enroll a child in a particular school, in a way it’s a contract lasting normally a full study term, of two and a half months. He or she pays in advance the full tuition. But when the school chooses to prematurely terminate the contract - by expelling the student, they never refund part of the fees. This is another way of fleecing parents. And for heavens sake, why this

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Ugandan schools In this issue we look at the unsolved mystery of the murder by shooting, of a prominent Muslim cleric, Abdu Karim Sentamu in Kampala one year ago. This could look like an isolated incident, but not quite. In a report released in Nairobi, April 26, 2013, Human Rights Watch claims that Police and prosecutors in Uganda have turned a blind eye to the killings of at least nine people by security forces during protests in April 2011. Human Rights Watch also issued a video in which relatives of the victims explain the impact on their families and their struggle to secure justice and compensation. To watch this video go to: http://youtu.be/YFe9UQv8jOU. To download raw footage and photos, go to: http://multimedia.hrw.org/distribute/qspchiuamt.

The accounts from the families themselves should drive home to the government the urgent need to fulfill its obligation to conduct an independent and thorough investigation into the deaths and hold security forces accountable.

Protests began in April 2011 after Activists for Change (A4C), a group that identifies itself as non-partisan and non-profit, called on the public to “foster peaceful change in the management of public affairs” by walking to work to protest escalating food and fuel prices. The government contended that the action constituted an unlawful assembly and vowed to stop it.

Security forces responded to the protests with brutality – killing, beating, and arbitrarily arresting protesters and bystanders. In some instances protesters turned aggressive, throwing stones and burning debris on the roads. Police acknowledged that well over 100 people were injured and over 600 were arrested countrywide during several days of protests.

Human Rights Watch investigated the abuses in 2011, interviewing more than 60 people – including victims and their relatives, witnesses, medical staff, civil society, police, military, and journalists. Human Rights Watch documented at least nine cases in which unarmed people had been killed by government forces – six in Kampala, two in Gulu, and one in Masaka. None of them were actively involved in rioting. Human Rights Watch did not find evidence that protesters had guns or other potential lethal means at their disposal. In at least three incidents that Human Rights Watch documented, security forces were hit by pelted rocks and injured.

At the police’s request, Human Rights Watch shared some of its investigations, including the name of a policeman widely believed to be responsible for one killing in the Namasuba area of Kampala, with police in July 2011. Police leadership accepted the accuracy of the names, dates, and locations of the deaths that Human Rights Watch provided. Human Rights Watch is not aware of any subsequent action to investigate the killings, however. No recent arrests have been made and relatives of the victims told Human Rights Watch that police have not been in contact since 2011.

Numerous witnesses corroborated accounts that security forces failed to distinguish between people actively participating in riots and bystanders. Witnesses also told Human Rights Watch that security forces responded to stone-throwing demonstrators by throwing teargas canisters directly at people or into houses or firing randomly into crowded areas.

Families of those killed have tried to push for justice and seek compensation, but their calls have gone unheeded, Human Rights Watch said. The April killings left families with the burden of school fees for upkeep of over a dozen children who, in most cases, lost their breadwinner.

At the time there was widespread criticism of the security forces’ actions. Members of civil society and the Uganda Human Rights Commission called on the authorities to respect the right to demonstrate and called for police restraint. The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, comprising the leadership of Uganda’s Christian and Muslim communities, called for the resignation of the internal affairs minister and the police inspector general. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights also urged a halt to actions by the police and the army that she said constituted disproportionate and excessive use of force.

One hundred and five Ugandan and international nongovernmental organizations and unions wrote to President Yoweri Museveni in June 2011 to urge the government to set up a transparent process promptly to investigate human rights abuses during the April protests and to hold accountable anyone found responsible for criminal acts, particularly incidents in which people were killed or wounded.

For more Human Rights Watch reporting on Uganda, please visit:http://www.hrw.org/africa/uganda

double punishment to the parent?Take for example a recent incident in

one prominent school here in Kampala. A number of students were accused of ‘teasing’ a counterpart. Majority had already paid full fees, about sh0.9m each. By the school’s unilateral way of conducting investigations eight students were found guilty and the penalty was expulsion! For the guardians it was double jeopardy and surely injustice! He or she would loose money already taken by this school and to be taken by the new school. Additionally, the new school would ask all entirely ‘new requirements’ that are mandatorily acquired from it in only its own colours! This means if the ‘requirements’ were to be secured from another source, they wouldn’t be accepted.

But how do schools conduct the investigations and what really constitutes a ‘teasing,’ for example, that calls for expulsion? What if the culprit only pinched the victim? And do the schools ever consider the natural circumstances, such as those examined in capital offences like murder before passing the sentence?

But in case the kind of justice executed in schools is what convention courts of law were doing - including expelling ‘unfit’ citizens from Uganda, where would such people go?

Therefore, the line Ministry of Education and Sports has to intervene on behalf of parents and guardians. The sort of kangaroo courts in schools and the rampant disguised graft in school requirements is not only a detriment to the parents but the nation, to which parents are contributing to educate its citizens. To enforce discipline is noble. But it doesn’t justify dictatorship and graft by any name.

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By Swaib K. Nsereko

7The Muslim Newshuman rights 23 Jumada II - 6th Rajab 14

Article 23 1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

The Quran encourages commerce and commands us to be fair and equitable in all transactions:

[30:46] Among His proofs is that He sends the winds with good omen, to shower you with His mercy, and to allow the ships to run in the sea in accordance with His rules, and for you to seek His bounties (through commerce), that you may be appreciative.

[17:66] Your Lord is the One who causes the ships to float on the ocean, that you may seek His bounties. He is Most Merciful towards you.

[6:152] …You shall give full weight and full measure when you trade, equitably…

[11:85] “O my people, you shall give full measure and full weight, equitably. Do not cheat the people out of their rights, and do not roam the earth corruptingly.

Article 24 Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

The Quran gives us general statements on how rest is part of human nature. None should be denied a good night’s sleep as night and day are designated with their own specific functions in meeting our needs. Denial of our right to a reasonable amount of leisure time would be detrimental to our health and contrary to what the Quran prescribes for us:

[28:73] It is mercy from Him that He created for you the night and the day in order to rest (during the night), then seek His provisions (during the day), that you may be appreciative.

[33:53] …do not engage him in lengthy conversations. This used to hurt the prophet, and he was too shy to tell you. But GOD does not shy away from the truth…

Article 25 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being

of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

The Quran guarantees social justice for everyone through the goals of fasting, zakat and prayer. Fasting is meant to instill within us a greater sense of empathy and social awareness towards the less fortunate. By voluntarily depriving ourselves of our need for food we are not only exerting self- restraint, but we are also more importantly inculcating within ourselves a greater sense of gratitude towards our Provider and generosity towards the poor. Zakat prescribes that we must set aside 2.5% of what we receive from our paychecks as a charity to those in need. These are religious duties upon every Muslim. Voluntary charity and caring for the orphans is also strongly encouraged.

[107:1-7] Do you know who really rejects the faith? That is the one who mistreats the orphans. And does not advocate the feeding of the poor. And woe to those who observe the Prayers (salat) - who are totally heedless of their prayers. They only show off. And they forbid charity.

[36:47] When they are told, “Give from GOD’s provisions to you,” those who disbelieve say to those who believe, “Why should we give to those whom GOD could feed, if He so willed? You are really far astray.”

[2:215] They ask you about giving: say, “The charity you give shall go to the parents, the relatives, the orphans, the poor, and the traveling alien.” Any good you do, GOD is fully aware thereof.

[70:24-25] Part of their money is set aside. For the poor and the needy.

Article 26 1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

The Quran generally encourages seeking God’s bounties and learning, emphasizing the use of our faculties to verify information. God is against anything that hinders the gaining of knowledge and encourages us to think freely rather than beeing blinded by our own traditions and values. We are also asked to open our eyes and reflect on God’s creation:

[86:5] Let the human reflect on his creation.

[54:17] We made the Quran easy to learn. Does any of you wish to learn?

[17:36] You shall not accept any information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them.

[39:18] They are the ones who examine all words, then follow the best. These are the ones whom GOD has guided; these are the ones who possess intelligence.

By Jaffer Senganda, President Muslim Centre

for Justice and Law

Human Rights definedUniversal Declaration of Human Rights and the Quran

Uganda Human Rights Commission Report missed the point

On October 24, 1945, in the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations came into being as an intergovernmental organisation, with the purpose of saving future generations from the devastation of international conflict. Today I bring you the continuation of the articles in this Charter.

On April 13, 103, the Uganda Human Rights Commission 15th Annual Report was launched in fulfillment

of the constitutional requirement. The report highlights major issues pertaining to human rights in 2012 and the state of human rights in the country. On surface this appears good and well intended; however given the main contents of the report as one who has been in around and observing events; the truth of the matter is the otherwise for instance many issues of human rights concern that would have been covered were either deliberately not mentioned on were left out because of funds as the commission chairperson highlighted in the New Vision of April 16,2013. In views of this, the commission would have given due attention to the following issues;

Increased murder in the country more especially in the countryside. For instance in the preceding period to the report, a number of lives were lost at the hands Iron bar hit men in Rakai District were many lives were lost, gunshot murders as well as increased cases of alleged poisoning .There murders cut across the social classes some

were noticed among the high profile citizens like the murder of Sheiks Sentamu in the city centre : this was open testimony in the lapse of Kampala’s security management; that left many of us wondering how could criminals infiltrate the interior security lines and execute their mission without any detection or apprehension from the authorities concerned. In Kyanja, Haji Kigejogejo’ life was also tragically ended in similar manner in the early hours of the evening. All these were not captured by the report. At least three other Muslim clerics were murdered in cold blood by shooting, in Busoga Region.

On the whole, land evictions have become common item on all major local news bulletins for both T.V and Radio.

To my surprise the commission, apart from the annualized submission of the report to the legislature for purposes of honoring the constitutional obligation, did not engage the stake holders to practically deal a decisive blow to these great threats to the enjoyment of personal and public rights as well. The violation or non observation of the issues leads to the violation of the enjoyment of other rights as well. For instance when

masses are evicted from land, it adds to an already bigger group of landless urban poor. In turn this group, will reinforce the already frustrated urban criminal lot terrorizing citizens as iron bar hit men, affecting mostly the Boda boda riders in the city centre and its suburbs.

Next time the commission ought to aggressively follow these issues in the wider public and also need to know that at 15 years of its existence we the concerned members of the public need to feel its presence through intensified human rights awareness campaigns. Much as the opinion of the commission seem to be satisfied with the report, it’s underscored by the fact that these elite centered awareness campaigns are majorly conducted in Hotels, yet the common folk hardly access these places.

Secondly, many important human rights instruments are in English, without any deliberate effort to translate them into local languages.

Therefore, next time attention should also be extended to explore such administrative barriers in order to have a harmonious free society good for the enjoyment of our rights.

By Nsanja Siraaje

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Your Letters: Send your letters to Email: themuslimnews.ug@gmail.comand we shall publish them for free

Dear eDitor,

I would like to share with your readers how I embraced Islam. First and foremost I would say it was because fundamentally I had always been a Muslim without being aware of it.

Very early in my life I had lost faith in Christianity for many reasons, the major one being that whenever I questioned any Christian, whether it was a person belonging to the so called Holy Orders or a layman, regarding any point that puzzled me in regard to the Church teachings, I invariably received the monotonous answer: `You must not question the teachings of the Church; you must have faith.’ I did not have the courage in those days to say: `I cannot have faith in something that I do

not understand’, and, from my experience, neither do most of the people who call themselves Christians. What I did was to leave the Church (Roman Catholic) and its teaching and to place my faith in the one true god in whom it was much easier to believe, than in the three gods of the Church.

By contrast with the mysteries and miracles of the Christian teaching, life took on a new and wider meaning, no longer cramped with dogma and ritual. Everywhere I looked I could see God’s work. And although, in common with greater minds than my own, I could not understand the miracles that happened before my eyes, I could stand and marvel at the wonder of it all --- the trees, flowers, birds and animals. Even a new born babe became a

beautiful miracle, not the same thing that the Church had taught me to believe at all. I remembered how, when a child, I gazed at newborn babies and thought, ‘It’s all covered in black sin’, I no longer believed in ugliness; everything became beautiful.

Then one day my daughter brought home a book about Islam. We became so interested in it that we followed it up with many other books on Islam. We soon realized that this was really what we believed. During the time I had believed in Christianity I had been led to believe that Islam was only something to joke about. Thus all that I then read was a revelation to me. After a while I looked up some Muslims and questioned them on some of the points that were not quite clear to me. Here again there was yet another revelation. My questions were all answered

promptly and concisely, so different from the frustration I had experienced when questioning Christianity. After much reading and studying of the religion of Islam both my daughter and myself decided to become Muslims, taking the names of Rashida and Mahmuda respectively.

If I were asked what impressed me most in the religion of Islam, I would probably say the prayers, because prayers in Christianity are used wholly in begging God (through Jesus Christ) to grant worldly favours, whereas in Islam they are used to give praise and thanks to Almighty God for all His blessings since He knows what is necessary for our welfare and grants us what we need without our asking it.

Cecilia Mahmuda, Australia

Dear eDitor,

Recently, President Museveni launched vision 2040 at a colorful ceremony at Kololo Airstrip. This document has details of Uganda’s vision for the next 30 years.

According to this document, Ugandans are expected to increase the per capita income from500 us dollars to around 9000 us dollars percentage increase of around 1800%. In a simple understanding, by the year 2040 an average Uganda will be getting around 24million shillings a year.

The document further says that by 2040, Uganda will be having around 5 well planned cities with a city for each region. Kampala will be changed with improved roads, sanitation, health facilities and Uganda will be transformed into a middle income country.

In the tenure of President Museveni’s presidency, Ugandans have witnessed a number of colorful ceremonies that are held to launch such wonderful documents. But the question is what happens after the

launching?When President Museveni came into power,

he came with the ten point program. This was like a magic spell on all Ugandans. To many Ugandans, these ten points were key to the desired development. This explains why president Museveni enjoyed massive support from the elite in his early days.

But to the dismay of many, 27 years later issues like corruption that were in the 10 points program have just become endemic and there is little being done to stop it.

Without a serious evaluation of our performance as far as the 10 points program was concerned, these points were revised to become fifteen. But still it is hard to tell how far he went in executing the fifteen points.

Then there came the millennium development goals (MDG’S) although these ones were not authored by this government, they were immediately adopted because they looked to be in the interest of the common man in Africa.

These included issues like gender

mainstreaming and universal education where we have fairly performed. But what about issues like reducing the maternal mortality rate and the infant mortality rate where we have under-performed.

Although the deadline for the MDG’S IS 2015, where are the indicators that these will be achieved? Even where we had performed very well for example HIV/AIDS, the current trends are showing that we are declining and instead of regrouping and putting our efforts together again we are in the media giving conflicting messages.

But before we even talk about vision 2040, what happened to vision 2025? I know many Ugandans have never heard of vision 2025 but it was also formulated by this government a few years back but it was not implemented even for a single day. With all the money spent on consultants to formulate the vision 2025 wasted, it is hard to trust this government on vision 2040.

In 2006, president Museveni introduced the prosperity for all program (Bonnabagagawale). In this president Museveni promised to improve the income of Ugandans to around 20m a year. This was supposed to be got through programs like NAADS.

Until recently NAADS has been straggling to create impacts to impress the president and Ugandans at large but it has failed and the president has already expressed disappointment. The problem with such programs in Uganda is implementation where corruption comes in and everything is lost.

Unless when the vision 2040 is spared by the corrupt officials, it will remain a good document authored by one of my best Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa. It is feared that it will occupy its position in the mortuary of Uganda’s programs a few years from now.

Saleh Ssenyonjo, Masaka.

Dear eDitor,

There are many unsung Muslim heroes who contributed im-mensely to Islam in various capacities since the advent of Islam in Uganda in the year 1844. However for unclear reasons, they are not recognized despite the fact that they did a lot for Islam.

Maulana Abdul Razak Matovu is one of these unsung Muslim Heroes.

Abdul Razak Matovu was the son of the late Sheikh Ahmad Matovu of Buyenga – Butambala and a grandson of Muwalimu Musa Mudde of Buyenga – Butambala. His mother was Razia Nakku. It is believed that he was born in 1931 and got his early education from Lukalu

Madarasat Al Falah in Lukalu – Butambala (unfortunately this Madarasa cannot be traced today).

From here, he went to Pakistan around 1956. After studying for five years in a Pakistan University, he graduated in 1961 with a degree in Islamic Studies. On his return from Pakistan in 1962, he started a prominent Madrasa at a nearby Mosque on the authority of the then Mufti of Uganda Shk. Swaib Ssemakula. He then started teaching at Sheikh Rashid Musoke’s school called Kimanya Noor in Buddu in 1963. He used to teach at Kimanya Noor while running the madrasa at the mosque. In 1965, he founded Madrasa Nadwatul Ulama and his pioneer students included the ones he

was teaching in his Madrasa in Buddu (Masaka). They were the now Sheikh Juma Abdul Noor Nsamba, Shk. Yahaya Ibrahim Kakungulu, Shk. Ahmad Ssenyomo, Shk. Mahmood Walukagga among others. Madrasa NadwatulUlama was transformed into the current Bilal Islamic Institute at Bwaise near Kampala.

This Madrasa produced a number of other prominent sheikhs who include the late Dr. Badruddiin Ssajjabbi, Dr. Anas Abdunoor Kalisa, Shk. Hakim Kimbowa, Shk. Ismail Mugomba, Sheikh Juma Abdul Noor Nsamba, Shk. Abubakar Musoke, and Shk. Ahmad Ssenyomo, to mention but a few.

Maulana Matovu was the first

Chief Kadhi of Uganda elected by the first Uganda Muslim Supreme Council General Assembly in 1972.

He was the first Sunni cleric to translate the Holy Quran from Arabic to Luganda in Uganda and the first black African Muslim scholar to sit on the Executive Committee of World Muslim League in Saudi Arabia. Out of his efforts, World Muslim League was established in Uganda.

That is the little I know.Anyone with additional

information about His Eminence Maulana Abdul RazakMatovu can contact meon the following address:

Email: pro_umsc@yahoo.com

Why I Embraced Islam

One of the Unsung Muslim Heroes of Uganda:His Eminence Maulana Abdul Razak Matovu

Vision 2040: Another document for the shelves?

Dear eDitor,

I wish to thank The Muslim News for a job well done. I have bought each and every issue of this educative paper since it was first published. My request is that you make the paper weekly and also publish a separate Luganda paper to cater for the wider society that does not read English. Before that, I also suggest that the articles on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Qur’an be translated into Luganda as they should be understood by as many people as possible. Maybe if more and more people understand these rights, they will shun mob justice and other abuses that characterize our society today. Besides, people who understand their rights can defend themselves better from abuse. For example, many ordinary people pay money to corrupt police officers to obtain police bond for themselves or their loved ones when arrested. This is due to ignorance of their rights which is gladly exploited by corrupt police officers.

Rashid Kasozi, Kampala

Publish The Muslim News weekly

BIRMINGHAM – Up to 25,000 British Pakistani men, women and children from across the UK gathered in Aston Park here to express their love for Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) and to call on the British government to introduce legislation that bars Islamophobes from insulting Islam under the garb of the freedom of speech.

The participants, who also travelled from several parts of European cities, were led in a peaceful and colourful mile-long march by Hazrat Peer Alauddin Siddiqui. Speakers included interfaith leaders from Christian, Hindu, Sikh, and Jewish religions and parliamentarians from Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats. Sardar Attique Khan, former Azad Kashmir Prime Minister, was the chief guest of the rally.

Hazrat Peer Alauddin Siddiqui, who is a renowned Sufi scholar, told Geo News: “Thousands have come together to show peacefully to the western world that the production and promotion of a recent film insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has caused hurt to

Muslims all over the world. We are a peaceful community and we will do everything to protect peace and respect for all on equal basis.

It is not fair that some people insult Islam everyday and preach hatred through their actions and words but the lack of legislation encourages such elements. We want to tell our government that we welcome debate and constructive criticism of our religion but insults are unacceptable and inflammatory language is contributing to the rise of extremism among youth in western countries where youth mistakenly believe that the West hates Islam and Muslims.”

He announced that a rally of tens of thousands of Muslims will be held soon in Hyde Park to profess loyalty to Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) as well as to condemn the crudely made “Innocence of Muslims” movie which was recently released in the US and caused outrage in the Islamic world, including leading to a ban on Youtube in Pakistan.

Peer Siddiqui told the audience that relations between

Islamic and Western countries have improved in recent years and these years need to be strengthened but that is possible if all religions are respected and there should be law in place to ensure that Islam and Muslims are not singled out.

“There is resentment among Muslims over the continuing failure of the western government for not doing enough to protect Muslims. Attacks on Muslims have increased and while we are law-abiding and peace-loving citizens of this country, we want our government to take our concern into account,” he added and appealed to Muslims to stay peaceful against provocations.

Speakers said that freedom of speech was a cherished value but abusing Islam is not freedom of speech. They said the best way forward is to engage constructively with Muslims about their religion. They said Muslims were making a great contribution towards everyday life in western countries and it is important that their contribution is recognized.

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Thousands rally in UK to demand end to anti-Islam speeches

Man gets 40 years, mother 26, for murder

187 dead, 77 injured in fierce Nigeria clashes

7 die of suffocation in Madinah

MADINAH – Seven people of one family died of suffocation in a fire broke out in a villa in Iskan neighborhood, Madinah at dawn today.

The Information Spokesman for the Civil Defense in Madinah region Col. Khalid Al-Juhani pointed out that the fire broke out in a room; and there was dense smoke, and a family of seven people were with-held, noting that the people died of suffocation and one person as a result of burning.

By Hidaya Namulumba

MASAKA – Masaka High Court Judge, lady Justice, Margaret. C. Oumo Oguli, has sentenced a 22 year old man to 40 years imprisonment and his co-accused who is also his mother is to serve 26 years for murder.

Twibu Ssenteza (22) and Joyce Nakato (39) both residents of Lwamatengo Village, Lwemiyaga Sub County in Sembabule District are convicted for conniving to kill their relative John Edwards Bukenya, (father to Nakato and grandfather to Twibu).

Prosecution led by peter Mugisha told court that on 29th June 2009 at around 9 pm, Nakato and her son Ssenteza waylaid Bukenya, on his way back home from his shop at Kihimba trading center killing him in cold blood.

Mugisha told court that the deceased was the following morning found lying in a pool of blood with deep cuts on the head by his son Elijah Ssenjobe who raised an alarm that drew residents to the scene of crime.

Prosecution further said Nakato had developed a isunderstanding with her father Bukenya resulting from a land dispute. He said that Nakato had several times approached the area chairperson Patrick Ssenkoli asking him to talk to her father

so that the deceased can give her more land claiming that the one and half kilometer piece of land the deceased had given to his daughter was too small.

Mugisha told court that because the deceased rejected Nakato’s demands, she started threatening his father that she would rather kill him and take over his land if the deceased could not give her more land.

Mugisha told court that it’s a pity that though Bukenya loved his grandchild Ssenteza to the extent of marrying him a wife and building him a house on his own land he decided to pay him by conniving with his mother Nakato to take away his life asking the judge to give the duo a maximum sentence so that they can serve as an example to greedy people who kill their relative in need for wealth.

However the defense lawyer Edward Kikirengoma told court that the duo was so remorseful for the brutal acts they committed, and have young children they have to look after and court should consider the 4 years and 5 months they have spent on remand court should give them a minimum sentence.

However, the presiding Judge Justice Oguli said that the convicts killed their relative violently yet he had done valuable things for them.

BY AMINU ABUBAKAR

KANO, NIGeRIA – Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops and suspected Islamist insurgents has killed 187 people and injured 77 others, with massive blazes that raged after the clashes leaving nearly half the town destroyed, the Red Cross said Monday.

The bloodshed in the remote northeastern town of Baga likely marks the single deadliest event in the insurgency being waged by Boko Haram, the radical Islamist group blamed for scores of attacks in northern and central Nigeria since 2009.

Conflicting reports have emerged of the fighting that broke out Friday, but residents

and officials have said the high death toll included soldiers, insurgents as well as scores of civilians.

“So far 187 dead have been buried, while 77 are under admission in hospitals,” Red Cross Spokesman Nwakpa O. Nwakpa told AFP. More than 300 houses in the fishing town on the shores of Lake Chad “were burnt down,” he added.

Another rescue official who did not want to be named said “40 percent of the town has been gutted by fire.” Facing mounting political pressure over his inability to end the violence, President Goodluck Jonathan set up a panel last week to study how an amnesty could be offered to Boko Haram. It is unclear if members of the radical sect are open to an amnesty deal.

120 KARIMAJONG WARRIORS WHO EMBRACED ISLAM NEED YOUR HELP Sometime back, close to 120 Karimajong warriors accepted Allah and His messenger

Muhammad (peace be upon him) and this happened in Napumpum, 10Km from Kotido Town council, Kotido District, North Eastern Uganda. There is urgent need for some items needed for the facilitation of these new Muslims into their new life. There is also a strong need for Islamic awareness both to the warrior Muslim converts, the Muslims and the rest of the Karimajong Warrior community to know about Allah and His prophet Muhammad

(peace be upon him).

We at Islamic Comparative Religion Daawa Association, (www.islam4africa.org) have organized a 10 day trip to Napumpum, Karamoja scheduled on 4th to 14th May, 2013

inshaa- Allah if all the requirements are secured in time.

Our 10 day Trip will deliver the following:lAny commodity items donated by Muslims.lIslamic preaching on doctrine and the practical life of a Muslim.lWe shall preach to the Non-Muslim warrior community about Islam, Allah, and prophet Muhammad.lWe shall advocate for Godliness, peace, mutual respect, hard work,hygiene and co-existence of all the different communities.

AppealWe hereby call upon the Muslims to donate any of the

following items for the success of this 10 day Daawah trip:lNew or used Clothes (casual, Kanzus, Hijabs/Sharia, veils, men’s caps, Kids clothes, Bedsheets, Blankets), Shoes, sandals.lSoap and Tooshpaste, l200 Yasarnal Quran books, each cost 1000/=lArabic Quran copies, English Translated are best. l50 Kg of Rice + 30Kg of Sugar + 20Kg of maize flour., l500,000/= worth of fuel (Diesel),l 500,000/= Miscellaneous

We have to show our love and compassion for our new Muslim brothers just like the Ansaar did for the Muhajiruun.

Commodity items can be dropped at our office on Equatoria Mall, Room 553, or call us on 0772-53-54-24 0r 0701-53-54-24

Ali Kyeswa

APPEAL FOR HELPIslamic Comparative Religion Daawa

Association www.islam4africa.org

10 The Muslim News local/foreign news 23 Jumada II - 6th Rajab 14

By Haji Nsereko Mutumba

Mayuge – The Mufti of Uganda His Eminence Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje has commended Ugandan students who recently graduated after successfully completing their degree courses in Libya for their endurance, especially during the time of war.

The Mufti was speaking during prayers organized in honour of Shk. Abu Twahiyu Nakwasi in Mayuge – Busakira on Saturday April 20th 2013. Abu Twahiyu got a degree in Sharia after completing a four years course in Tripoli – Libya.

Twahiyu is one of the 8 students that His Eminence the Mufti met when he last went to Tripoli during the war in 2011.

The Mufti applauded Twahiyu for his perseverance and hard work during the course which he said had finally yielded fruits for Muslims in Mayuge to reap. He told the jubilant audience that turned up in large numbers to witness the event that Mayuge needs more degree holders in order to develop the District in particular and the Uganda Muslim population in general.

He called upon Muslims in Mayuge to make educating of their children a priority in order to put an end to claims that “Muslims are illiterate”. He urged parents to take their children to Muslim founded schools saying that it is such schools that produce successful Muslims like Twahiyu.

“The best gift that you can give to your child is education, so endeavor to educate

both girls and boys for their own good and for the good of Islam.

The Mufti also advised Muslims in Mayuge Muslim District to contact the office of the Secretary for Education and Social Services get information about scholarship opportunities and other useful information concerning education and social services.

While speaking at the same event, the State Minister for Culture and Gender Hon. Rukia Isanga Nakadaama thanked the Mufti for championing unity and development among Muslims in the Country. She joined the Mufti in urging Muslims in Mayuge to educate their children noting that it is the only way to unity and development. She announced two Ph.D scholarships which she had sourced and requested the Mufti to identify suitable candidates preferably from Mayuge Muslim District.

Hon. Rukia also urged Muslims in Mayuge to use resources they have at hand instead of longing for government jobs as well as waiting for the government to fulfill all their needs.

“We Muslims have many children and the best way to educate them is to make proper use of our land” she urged.

The graduate, Shk. Twahiyu expressed his appreciation to the Mufti for his regular visits and support to them while they were in Tripoli. Twahiyu who is already a teacher in two local schools committed himself to inspiring other young Muslims to seek knowledge and promised to work hard and contribute to the development of the area.

Mufti Mubajje Commends Libya Graduates

The Mufti Mubajje, congratulating the graduates

When word spread that two bombs had been detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Imam Ibrahim Rahim found himself alone at Yusuf Mosque on Boston’s Chesnut Hill Avenue.

First he offered a prayer for the victims. And then he quietly added: “Dear Lord, God, please whatever this yields, let it not be something that can in anyway be associated with Islam.”

In New York, at the same time, Daisy Khan, Director of the American Society of Muslim Advancement, had a similar thought, reduced to less than 140 characters: “#ihopeitsnotamuslim.”

“My first reaction was I hope it’s not a Muslim. I even thought of a Twitter hashtag,” said Khan, a leader in the project to build a Muslim community center and mosque near the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.

The uncertainty around who perpetrated the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 has left many people anxious. But Muslim Americans await the identity of the perpetrator with particular dread.

“If a Muslim did this it will set the Muslim community back a decade,” Khan said. “It will feed into the perception that Muslims are terrorists. Children are more likely to be bullied at school, individuals at work will be treated with suspicion by their coworkers.”

Fear of association following a crime is a phenomenon known to nearly every minority in America. But given the scale of 9/11, an attack perpetrated entirely by foreigners, some American Muslims say they are particularly concerned about their faith being associated with the mass killing of innocent people.

It took a number of Muslim American groups days to respond to the Sept. 11 attacks. Within hours of Monday’s bombings, however, every major Islamic association in the United States had issued a statement offering condolences, expressing outrage, even directing people on how to donate blood.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, authorities said they were questioning a Saudi national, who had been injured in the blast. Many Muslims breathed a sigh of relief when investigators said they no longer believed the 20-year-old man was a person of interest, but they still wait with held breath for a suspect to be apprehended.

“Muslims have learned they have to speak out and speak out swiftly,” said Khan. “It helps with our perception by other Americans, but it doesn’t help keep us from worrying a Muslim is responsible.”

Muslims in Boston were invited to participate in today’s interfaith service, in which President Obama is speaking, and are planning another event on Friday, the Muslim day of prayer.

Muslims respond to Boston bombings 34-Year-Old Woman Commits Suicide in MasakaBy Hidaya Namulumba

Police in Masaka are investigating circumstances under which a patient at Masaka referral hospital hanged self.

Jane Nakavuma 34, a resident of Kisekka village in Kisekka Sub County in Lwengo District was found April 16, hanging on a guava tree at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital after discovering that she was HIV positive.

Noeline Nakalyango says that she was shocked to find her sister hanging on a tree yet she was steadily recovering from illness and they were hoping that they were to be discharged soon.

Nakalyango says that according to some of the patient’s attendants whom the deceased used

to speak to says that Nakavuma told them that she had big dreams which she could not achieve after finding that she was HIV positive which could have forced her to commit suicide.

Masaka Referral Hospital administrator Eriazer Mugisha says that the deceased was admitted at the hospital on 10th April and she was steadily responding to medication and they were considering discharging her on Thursday but they were surprised to receive information that she had hanged self. Mugisha adds that the nurse who was on duty in ward two where Nakavuma was under going treatment saw her with a piece of cloth leaving the roam thinking that she was going to toilet but they were surprised to find her dead.

Missing Cyclist Found DeadBy Hidaya Namulumba

SSeMBaBule – Police in Ssembabule are investigating circumstances under which a boda boda cyclist was brutally murdered and latter buried in a farm.

John Tebanderana a boda boda cyclist at Lugusulu Stage had been missing for a week which forced fellow cyclists to mount a search for their friend finding him killed and buried in a farm of the Sub County chairman Fred Kalakule.

The incident occurred at Kizaano village, Lugusulu Sub County in Ssembabule District. This prompted angry motorcyclists to storm the home of herdsman indentified as Ssebula, whom they suspected to have murdered their colleague, severely beating him up. in the process he mentioned

Kayemba and one Ivan as the suspects. Ssembabule District Criminal

Investigations Officer, Geoffrey Mwiima has condemned the act by the mob saying that police has already started hunting for those cyclists that took the law into their own hands.

He says that police has arrested Kayemba to help them with investigations into the matter they continues looking for Ivan who is still at large.

Tebandelana and Ssebula’s bodies have been moved to Ssembabule Health Center IV for postmortem as investigations into the matter continue.

This is the second mob incident in nearly a space of a week since a mob at Matete town council, Ssembabule District also lynched a suspected motorcycle thief.

11The Muslim Newscomment 23 Jumada II - 6th Rajab 14

By Nnyombi Mohamood

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says regardless of promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, millions of mothers, newborn babies and children continue to die each year in Africa from preventable diseases. The WHO found that some of the continent’s biggest problems are getting worse and the rates of death during childbirth and among young children are increasing. Although Africa has 11% of the global population it has 60% of the world’s HIV/AIDS cases and 90% of world malaria cases, mainly in children under 5.

While diseases such as polio, measles and leprosy have almost been eradicated, there is a steady growth of “lifestyle” medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and stroke. And on top of that, the WHO report cites out that only 58% of the people living in sub-Saharan Africa have access to safe drinking water! All are health concerns!

Health and Development are two sides of the same coinThere can be no sustainable economic development within a nation without a healthy population. Poverty and poor health status are inextricably linked and in recent years have been complicated by the devastation of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The impact of this pandemic has been felt most keenly on the African continent. Most deaths in developing countries are needless and preventable. Malaria, Acute respiratory illness, HIV/AIDS and diarrheal disease account for a large percentage of the disease

burden on the continent. Most of these illnesses can be treated for less than a dollar but on a continent where the majority of people live on less than a US$1 a day, the most frequent outcome is death.

The Millennium Development Goals agreed upon by United Nations member states in 2002 have a common goal, the elimination of global poverty by the year 2015. Of the 8 MDG’s, 3 are directly health related, MDG’s 4, 5 and 6 whilst another two are indirectly health goals. These reinforce the correlation between health and development in the nations of the world. MDG’s 4, 5 and 6 are about maternal health, child health and HIV/AIDS respectively. According to the United Nations, globally every minute a woman dies from complications in childbirth, resulting in about 529,000 deaths each year, primarily occurring in

developing nations. The African Regional Health

Report, the first study to look at health trends among 738 million Africans, said more investment was needed to cut disease and tackle poverty and because of AIDS and armed conflicts, the health situation in many African countries has not improved in recent years and in some cases has worsened.

Are Africans paying a deaf ear?Every now and then, African countries have been urged to develop solutions for fighting disease and improving health for development. Believe me or not, the very Africans know what the challenges are, and how to address them. Yes, African governments and their partners must make a major commitment and invest more funds in the health sectors, because African

countries will not develop economically and socially without substantial improvements in the health of their people.

African heads of state are very much aware that there is a need for every African country to avail at least 50% of all HIV/AIDS patients with life-saving antiretroviral medicine. An innovative programme that trains nurses to do some of the work traditionally done by doctors and community health workers to take on some of the work of nurses should be adopted.

The need to develop community cost-sharing schemes to community health centres with staff trained to deliver babies and perform emergency caesarian sections, making skilled obstetric care available to thousands of women who could not previously afford it. This system has gradually addressed Mali’s perplexing health woes. National institutions in

many African countries are often weak, leaving governments open to corruption, and conflict has affected several African countries with devastating consequences for health. HIV and AIDS have undoubtedly contributed.

The lax attitude by African heads of state on matters of health continues to pose as the major impediment to development in Africa. Tax payers money that would have been meant for health are swindled without any sense of renounce yet On average, 1 in every 14 adults in Africa is infected with HIV, a rate much higher than in any other part of the world. The resulting pressures on health workers are immense, and the situation described by any clinical officer in Uganda is by no means unique.

Donors providing budget support usually require governments to increase their social sector spending, but increases in spending on health do not necessarily follow (primary education has generally done better in this regard). Furthermore, although overall government expenditure on health is very low in Africa (typically around $6 per person), the money is mostly spent on providing services such posh cars to health ministers, ghost workshops as well as tertiary hospitals, which are expensive and mainly benefit the better off. Non-governmental organisations, which are important providers of health care to deprived populations in many African countries, may not benefit from increased aid flows to government.

The Author is a Journalist and a commentator on social

and political issues. E-mail: analyst_nyombi@yahoo.com

Africa’s fragile health sectors represent an enormous barrier to Development

By Hassan Wasswa

A journey of 1000 miles starts by one step. MSAU-Education committee’s journey started with academic visits that aimed at covering 25 schools (15 secondary & 10 primary), but due to financial challenges we managed to cover 12 schools namely; King Fahad Islamic Busega, Kamwokya Islamic PS, Zam Zam Islamic, Namasuba UMEA, Bweyogere Muslim PS for the primary category. Kakungulu Memorial, Bilal Theological- Bwaise, Sumaya Girls,Kinaawa High - Mugongo CAMPUS,Kinaawa - Kawempe, Mbogo High and lastly Nabisunsa Girls. The program ran between 3rd March- 5th April 2013 and aimed at meeting candidates (S4 and S6 students) and the general Muslim student community in the mosques. Topics covered included:lFoundation building and dream achieving (How to become an academic giant).lAcademic excellence and how to get to a government sponsorship.lIs doing Arts a curse, aimed for the S6 Arts class so as to enhance production of valuable Muslims like lawyers,

administrators, businessmen etc.lChallenges of doing sciences and their solutions aimed at encouraging Muslims to do sciences.lMuslim academic supremacy and a theme “no wining us in our own (academic jihad).

The facilitators were: Hassan Wasswa, Hafidh Damulira Yusuf, Miti Fahad, Hafidh KabugoNasif,Nakalule Sophie, (Kyambogo University) Magala Ibrah, Nalugo Khadijah (Makerere University), Migadde Abdusalam, Kawesa Umar, Lukyamuzi Alhaq (Mulago Paramedical and Medicare).

MSAU thanks the Headmasters and staff of all the schools we visited for their hospitality, facilitation and parental love and guidance, the students for the sacrifices they made to come and they used their own money in transport plus other stake holders like the MSAU executive, UMTA, SENA foundation that donated,through MSAU, 150 books to every school we went to and we pray to Allah to reward them abundantly.

RecommendationslThere’s a need for all Muslim students Associations to put and possess an academic

committee on their executives and monitor them for effective work in order to expand the program.lThere’s a need for the OB’s and OG’S

at higher institutions to form associations aimed at academic visits to their schools so as to motivate, strengthen & enhance academic excellence.lFor effective work, we need to cover at

least one region in a given period e.g. West Nile in which we can cover a good number of 30-40 schools and can be sponsored easily.lMore financial support is needed to

support the visiting students carry out the programme. lThere’s a need for the elite groups to form

associations and carry out career guidance so as to encourage the infant generation in order to groom the next Muslim elite.lMuslim schools are called upon to

adopt the idea of carrier guidance in which different facilitators of different professions inspire &encourage the next Muslim young generation.lWe call up our own national survey on

the performance of our Muslim schools and how both theological and secular education

can be introduced in all Muslim schools in Uganda.lWe need to define the boundaries, culture

and laws governing all Muslim schools so as to erase malpractices, pretenders, conmen etc. so as to groom the next Muslim elite well.lThe local mosques plus the Muslim

authorities should search and provide scholarships, job opportunities and award the best students in their mosques to encourage the rest in the system.lThe government is called upon to

subsidize the private sector education, since majority of our schools are privately owned. This will strengthen and encourage more Muslim schools to develop.

ConclusionThe MSAU ACADEMICS COMMITTEE calls the entire Muslim community to join them in this task as they make their next move to Jinja in JUNE 2013, to carry on the same programme for a whole week.

Hassan Wasswa is the Assistant Education Secretary of MSAU

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MSAU focuses on academic excellence among Ugandan Muslim students

Millions of mothers and children in Africa continue to die from preventable diseases

12 The Muslim News 23 Jumada II - 6th Rajab 14 IslamIc teachIng

The disunity among Ugandan Muslims today is a sad affair. And unless human bonds are again infused with affection

and warmth of love and brotherhood, we will never be able to taste the rich joys and pleasures of living together.

As a yardstick and criterion in our lives, Islam has given us a clear definition of unity and brotherhood and how it can be realised and implemented. The uniting factor is the `Aqeedah (creed) of Islam which defines the belief of a Muslim. Unlike other bonds (nationalistic, patriotic, tribalistic, to mention but a few, which are superficial, animalistic, reactive, emotional, and completely devoid of a real solution for life’s affairs, the intellectuality of the ideological bond of Islam unites man irrespective of their race, nationality, and other factors which are irrelevant when it comes to bonding on an ideological creed.

Al Mu’minoon (Believers in Allah and His Messenger Muhammad (pbuh)) are united in a Brotherhood based on solely Islam: “The Mu’minoon are but a single Brotherhood.” (Qur’an, 49:10). The reason for their being described in this way is that they all share the same beliefs, work towards the same goals, and share the same code of behavior.

In his Farewell Sermon the Prophet (pbuh) while commenting on the verse (O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female and made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! The noblest of you, in the Sight of God is the best in conduct. Lo! God is All-Knowing, All-Aware.) (Qur’an 49:13) emphasized, “All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor does a black have any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn

that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood.”

Other ahadith further elaborate on the concept of unity and brotherhood:

“A Muslim is the brother of another Muslim. He does not oppress him, nor does he leave him at the mercy of others.” (Muslim)

A Muslim’s faith is dependent upon his attitude towards other Muslims. The Prophet said, “None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself.” (Bukhari)

Universality of the Brotherhood of IslamThe Islamic belief in the unity of mankind

is the corollary of the doctrine of the Unity of God. The self-same God is the Creator and Nourisher of the men and women of all nations, races, colors, creeds and cultures. Islam rejects all false criteria of superiority based on race, nationality, color or language. It makes righteousness and good conduct the only mark of superiority in the Sight of God.

This brotherhood is a very deep and wide concept that guarantees the safety and the well being of the society at large. For example, Ibn Abbas reported Allah’s Messenger (pbuh) as saying,

“The person who eats his full and the

neighbor in his surroundings is hungry is not Muslim.” Moreover, it is sufficient evil for a Muslim that he looks down upon his brother. The Prophet (pbuh) said, “It is sufficient evil for a Muslim that he looks down upon his brother.” (Tirmithi)

The importance of brotherhood in Islam is not being overstressed here. A Muslim society is like a building which bricks

support each other.Brotherhood in the Historical PerspectiveThis brotherhood was established in

Madina between the emigrants from Makkah (Muhajirin) and the helpers of Madina (Ansars).The Muhajirin had come to Madina empty handed and had left all their possessions and property in Makkah. They had no source of income and were living a life of extreme poverty and hunger. The Prophet therefore instituted a pact of brotherhood between the Muhajirin and the Ansar according to which they become brothers in Faith. He appealed to them, “Let each of you take a brother in God.”(Afzalur Rehman “Encyclopaedia of Seerah”). This relationship proved to be greatest asset of Muslims in the coming years. The Holy Quran pays tribute to the Ansars of Madinah in these words: “And they prefer (the Muhajirin) above themselves though poverty become there lot.” [Quran 59:9

Thus, the Islamic concept of brotherhood is a blessing for us. It remained the greatest asset of Muslims in the past and is an essential prerequisite for unity. It shuns turmoil, turbulence, strife and dissension. But in the present era, the spirit of brotherhood is found absent among Muslims. Because we have forgotten this golden principle, we have consequently fallen into humiliation.

It is high time we ended the divisions eating us up. They are only based on greed, selfishness and a search for cheap popularity among the faithful. It is obvious we have not paid attention to the ahadith of the Prophet (pbuh) above yet we claim to believe in him as rasulullah! If this is the case (and it most certainly is), then we have not believed. We should be ashamed of ourselves!

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The Islamic concept of brotherhood is a blessing for us. It remained the greatest asset of Muslims in the past and is an

essential prerequisite for unity. It shuns turmoil, turbulence, strife and dissension

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13The Muslim News 23 Jumada II - 6th Rajab 14education

PASS O’ levelCHeMISTRY PRACTICAl 545/3/4

WithBakkabulindi K. Humalia

PASS O’LEVEL

CHEMISTRY PRACTICALS 545/3/4

By Bakkabulindi K. Humalia

PASS O’LEVEL CHEMISTRY PRACTICAL 545/3/4 WITH THE MUSLIM NEWS

It should be noted that a chemistry examination has got more than three papers. Paper one and two i.e. 545/1 &2 are compulsory while paper three i.e. 545/3 and paper four (545/4) are determined by the school. Our main focus as The Muslim News shall be on Practical. In any chemistry practical paper expect two Questions i.e. From Qualitative Analysis (Identifying Anions & Cations) and from Quantitative/ Volumetric Analysis (Involves calculations).

QUANTITATIVE/ VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS

This refers to measuring of volumes of solutions (Acids & Bases) by titration method.

TERMS USED IN QUANTITATIVE/ VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS.

The Mole This is the amount of substance containing in 6.02X1023 ions or Atoms of Carbon.

Molar Mass This is the mass of one mole of a substance. With S.I Unit g/mol. CONCENTRATION This is the amount of a solute (mole or grams) dissolved in a known volume of a solution. MOLAR SOLUTION This is a solution that contains one mole of a solute in one litre (1000cm3)of the solution. MOLARITY This is the number of moles of a solute dissolved in 1000cm3 of a solution. With S.I unit M or MolL-1 or Moldm-3 STANDARD SOLUTION. This is a solution whose concentration is accurately known. The concentration can be in moles per litre (MolL-1) or grammes per litre (gL-1). It is used to determine the concentration of the unknown solution. WORKED EXAMPLE: You are provided with the following: BA1, which is a solution containing 6.2g of a compound Y.nH20 in one litre of a solution. BA2 is

0.1M hydrochloric acid (1 mole of Y.nH2O reacts with 2 moles of hydrochloric acid, H2O=18,Y=64) 25.0cm3 of BA1 were pipette into a conical Flask. Average volume of BA2 used from the burette was 18.00cm3. (a) Calculate

(i) The number of moles of the acid reacted. (ii)The number of moles of Y.nH2O that reacted with the acid. (iii)The molarity of Y.nH2O (b) Determine the value of n. SOLUTION Step 1: Summarize whatever is given. BA1 BA2 6.2g/L of Y.nH2O 0.1MHCl, 18.00cm3 25.0cm3, H2O=18, Y=64, Y.nH2O: HCl=1:2 Step 2: Identify the standard solution i.e. one where they have given related data. N.B In mole concept, calculations are done basing on First principles but not formulaes. This is because not all times that they give you data which can fit in formula. In first principle we begin with what is given to us, where what we have is written on the Left Hand Side while what we are look for on the right. Step 3: Our Standard Solution is Hydrochloric Acid, and then begin I) Since 0.1M means concentration in 1000cm3 or a litre ,therefore

` 1000.00cm3 of acid contain 0.1 mole of HCl.

Then cross multiply 1.00cm3 of acid contains [0.1 X 1.00] mole of HCl.

1000.00

Cross multiply again 18.00cm3 of the acid shall contain [18.00 X 0.1 X 1.00] mole of HCl

1000.00

=0.0018 mole of HCl Acid

ii) We are lucky that they have not requested us to write an equation in order to obtain the mole ratio i.e. Y.nH2O: HCl=1:2 but we have to rewrite the mole ratio given. This is because we all know the number of moles of the acid in 18.00cm3. From mole ratio,

2 moles of the acid react with 1 mole of Y.nH2O Then cross multiply, 1 mole of the acid reacts with [ 1 X 1] mole of Y.nH2O 2 Cross multiply again, 0.0018 mole of the acid reacts with [1 X 1 X 0.0018] mole of Y.nH2O. 2 =0.0009 mole of Y.nH2O iii) We are aware that 0.0009 mole obtained is in 25.0cm3 then what about in 1000cm3 Let us calculate the molarity, 25.0 cm3 of Y contain 0.0009 mole Y.nH2O solution. 1.0 cm3 of Y contains 1.0 X 0.0009 mole of Y.nH2O 25.0 1000.0 cm3 of Y contain 1.0 X 0.0009 X1000 mole of Y.nH2O. ` 25.0 The molarity of Y =0.036 MolL-1 or M or Moldm-3 iv) In chemistry, n of Y.nH2O refers to as water of crystallization i.e. number of mole of water in hydrated substance. We cannot determine the value of ‘n’ unless we know the relative molecular mass (RMM) or Relative formula mass (RFM) of Y.nH2O. RFM in simple terms the mass of one mole of a substance. Since we have 6.2g/L & 0.036 Mol/L so they are highly related, therefore 0.036 mole of Y.nH2O contain 6.2 g Therefore 1 mole of Y.nH2O contains [1 X 6.2] 0.036 = 172.2 Alternatively, Using RFM =Concentration in g/L

Concentration in Mol/L

6.2

0.036

=172.2

Therefore after obtaining the RFM, then we can obtain the value of using,

Y.nH2O= RFM

WHERE Y=64, H2O=18, RFM=172.2

64+n (18) =172.2

18n+ 64 = 172.2

18n+64-64 = 172.2-64

18n = 172.2-64

18n= 108.2

18n =108.2 18 18 n = 6.01 n= 6

Therefore Y.6H20

TRAIL QUESTION 001 Try it Out .

BA1 is a solution containing 12.8g of a hydrated dibasic acid H2A.nH2O per litre of the solution. BA2 is 0.2M Sodium hydroxide solution. 25.0cm3 of BA2 were pipetted into a conical flask. Average Volume of BA1 used from the burette was 32.00cm3 . Required,

a) Write an ionic equation for the reaction. b) Calculate

I) The molarity of the acid. II) The relative formula mass of the acid. (A=64)

C) Determine the value of n.

14 The Muslim News 23 Jumada II - 6th Rajab 14 business

The employer-employee relationship is considered a hiring relationship, and we have

some Sharee‘ah texts that clarify the principles and regulations of this relationship as stated by the Islamic jurists in their books.

It is the right of the employee to have his wages specified in advance by the employer and to get it completely and on time. Abu Sa‘eed Al-Khudri narrated that the Prophet)SAW), said: “Whoever employs someone to work for him, he must specify for him his wage in advance.” [Musannaf ‘Abdur-Razzaaq]

Similar Hadeeths were also narrated by Ibn Abi Shaybah in his Musannaf on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, Abu Sa‘eed and ‘Uthmaan.

Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet( SAW) said: “Allaah Said, ‘I will be the opponent of three on the Day of Judgment: one who makes a covenant in My Name and then breaks it; one who sells a free man as a slave and devours his price and one who hires a workman and having taken full work from him, does not pay him his wages.”

On the Day of Judgment, Allah The Exalted will be the opponent of those types of people. Hence, the employers

who hire workers then delay their wages for a month or two or three must fear Allah.

‘Abdullaah ibn ‘Umar narrated that the Prophet , said: “Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.”

Moreover, the employer has no right to force the worker to do more work or work longer than the time they agreed on, provided that the worker has the ability to do what they agreed on.

On the other hand, the worker must satisfy the conditions between him and the employer in what is not prohibited under Sharee‘ah. Allah The Almighty Said (what means): {O you who have believed, fulfill [all] contracts.}[Quran 5:1]

The worker must also perform the work that is assigned to him perfectly. Al-Bayhaqi and Abu Ya‘la narrated on the authority of ‘Aa’ishah that the Prophet , said: “Verily, Allah loves that when anyone of you does something he does it perfectly.”

Finally, let us conclude by mentioning the great rule that the Prophet, stated in a Hadeeth: “There should be neither harm nor reciprocal harm.”[Ahmad]

Hence, there should be no harm against the employer or the employee.

Allah Knows best.

Rights and obligations of employer and employee in Islam

By Umar Yahya

Let me share with you some techniques to protect your email accounts from hackers and other cyber-opportunists. As feedback other readers may also supplement on these;

1 Do not choose to “remember password” on a shared

machine. This is because your login details will be saved by your browser(mozila/iExplorer/etc) and will be available for the next person who will attempt to login to the same mail service provider(yahoo,gmail,hotmai, among others).

But in-case you have already done this on a shared machine, don’t hung! Reset your password immediately if you still have access to your email account because most cases when malicious people gain access to our accounts they change the password hence denying us access to them.

And if you are sure (which isn’t a good assumption) that none has got hold of your login details yet, simply go to that computer and delete your saved passwords. Please make sure you are doing this (deleting saved passwords) on a public or your personal computer and not someone else’s computer).

2Ensure that the logout process is fully complete. Sometimes

internet speed is slow and hence we tend to lose patience and leave shared computers without successfully logging out. Please ensure the logout process is complete. How? When you sign out and are moved away from the page that gives you access to your emails, it means you have been logged out successfully.

And if you are in a café and in a hurry, then click three keys at the same time i.e Ctrl+Shift+Delete and clear the recent browse history accordingly depending on how long you have been using this machine. This won’t take more than a minute but will help you be logged out on that computer. The same applies to smart phones; if you use someone’s smart phone to check your mail and they are in a hurry to part then go to internet settings and clear cookies and sessions. Otherwise, they will be able to read your mails next time they attempt to login into their mail accounts.

3 Do not easily read mails in your spam folder. True sometimes

genuine messages end up here but even when you choose to open them and you discover they are conmen; don’t click on any link in there nor should you reply or send back your details as they usually

request.

4 Mails claiming to be from your mail provider (yahoo or gmail

or hotmail etc) and yet in the SPAM folder. Beware of these. How can a mail provider fall victim of its own spam filtering tools? Illogical, right? So sometimes they intimidate you that if you don’t reply by confirming your details your account will be deactivated-this is never true.

5 If you are having your email addresses on blogs or

websites, then don’t display them over there in their complete form. For example, if your email id is mymail@yahoo.com , display it as mymailATyahoo.com or embed this email id in an image instead. This is because SPAM generators usually pick them up easily on the web using their crawlers or other search tools.

6 In the event of receiving a message from a genuine email

id which is known to you but the message is ambiguous, please confirm with them first through a phone call or other means before you choose to reply them. This is so because conmen and fraudsters use this technique quite often.

7 In the event of losing your laptop or mobile phone

or an iphone or any smart-phone(Internet enabled among other functionality); Quickly login to all your accounts and reset all the passwords. This is so because, we tend to choose “remember password” option when using our personal laptops or we never logout when using our mobile phones. So by resetting your passwords, you will deny these thieves access to your email accounts.

8 Change your passwords quite often. Sometimes spies employ

hackers to gain access to your mail but also let you use it until when they decide to deny you access.

Sometimes they don’t even deny you access but you may end up in a trap.

Remember by losing an email account these days would mean losing two or more other accounts. This is so because our email accounts are nowadays associated with other accounts such as social-networking sites (facebook, twitter, twoo, google +,etc), academic journals, etc.

I wish you a relatively safer stay in the Cyber space.

Umar Yahya is Coordinator, Faculty of Science IUIU -

Kampala Campusulhum@yahoo.co.uk

Tips to help you protect your email account

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Islam teaches that the wages of an employee should specified in advance and paid as per the contract

15The Muslim News 23 Jumada II - 6th Rajab 14health

By Jennifer Berry Hawes “And be steadfast in prayer; practice regular charity; and bow down your heads with those who bow down.” — Quran, 2:143

Dr. Reshma Khan grew up in a Muslim family. But as a young doctor and mother, she studied her faith more deeply — and realized its strong call to charitable work.

On the one hand, selfless giving provides for society’s needs. Yet, giving in God’s name also purifies the giver’s heart.

“This is the cornerstone of the Islamic society and a constant theme in the Quranic teachings,” says Khan, an ob-gyn. “Faith should be put into action.”

So she examined her own life. How could she use her medical talents to give back beyond her paid position at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center?

“My purpose is to serve the creator, and the best way to serve the creator is through the creation,” Khan adds. “If God has given me this (talent), I need to use it for more than myself.”

She had long dreamed of opening a free gynecology clinic for women. In 2008, she began actively pursuing it and eventually took her proposal to the Islamic Circle of North America Relief USA, which provides social services, women’s shelters, programs for the hungry and other nationwide services. It also funds free clinics in other cities and agreed to help Khan.

At last, a year ago, her dream became the Shifa Free Clinic, a nonprofit in Mount Pleasant that provides a full-range of gynecology services to the uninsured and underinsured — regardless of faith.

At 42, Khan donates her time to provide the center’s medical care. Her husband, Dr. Ahsan Khan, a nuclear medicine specialist, serves on its board.

The clinic has provided nearly 300 patient visits already. Two women who otherwise might not have received medical care were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Both now are cancer-free, Khan says.

About half the patients there are

unemployed. The remaining 46 percent are employed but either lack health insurance or cannot afford what their insurance plans don’t cover.

Khan has not heard of another local free clinic that offers full gynecology services including breast exams; screening mammograms; endometrial, vulvar and vaginal biopsies; pregnancy tests; contraception; and pelvic and abdominal ultrasounds.

Khan clinic runs the clinic with about 20 volunteers and companies that donate medical services.

“I have met so many beautiful people with beautiful hearts of all different faiths and ethnicities,” Khan says. “I feel so humbled to be part of this bouquet of people.”

Along with ICNA Relief funding, a $20,833 Blue Cross and Blue Shield foundation grant given to the state’s free clinics funded a large chunk of the clinic’s first year. Donations paid much of the rest.

The state Department of Health and Environmental Control donates vaccines. Merck donates vaccines as well. MUSC’s Hollings Cancer Center donates mammography and other services. Lab Corp’s donated laboratory services alone were valued at $239,439 last year.

One recent day, four typical patients awaited care. Three of the four were uninsured.

Ilian Moreno has four young children and couldn’t afford a $600 fee for a gynecological test she needed. At the Shifa Clinic, she will get it for free.

Angela Pearson recently was laid off. She had health insurance through her husband’s job, but they couldn’t afford the $150 fee not covered for a procedure.

“It would mean not paying the mortgage or not buying food,” Pearson says.

Michele McFadden works at a local hospital but doesn’t have health insurance because she is a per diem employee. Like 90 percent of patients here, she’s not Muslim — and it doesn’t matter to her that Khan is.

“Health care is pretty universal,”

McFadden says. “It doesn’t matter what religion you are.”

Khan soon will be joined by Dr. Betsy Rainey, an ob-gyn who just moved to Charleston after serving with Doctors Without Borders overseas.

“These are patients who might otherwise not get treated,” Rainey says.

Embarking on the clinic’s second year, what does Khan have planned?

She’d like to increase services by 20%

and provide free or low-cost osteoporosis screenings and colonoscopies.

Oh, and expand the clinic’s Feed the Hungry program and its back-to-school program funded by the Central Mosque of Charleston.

She grins widely. Lofty goals, she knows.But her faith and belief in serving others

made the center a reality in the first place, and she’s certain it will carry her from here.

Muslim doctor opens Shifa Free Clinic for women in US

Iranian scientists managed to produce a medical hormone to cure breast cancer, taking another giant step in cancer treatment, ISNA reported.

Researchers at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences designed synthesis and examined inhibitory effects of Aromatase enzyme with potential effects of anti-breast cancer and induction of pregnancy.

The invention is related to the family of drugs used in the hormones for treatment of breast cancer, especially the third generation of non-steroidal inhibitory of Aromatase enzyme.

These drugs are the newest and most efficient drugs inhibiting Aromatase.

Farzin Hadizadeh, one of the researchers of the university research team, said the invention deals with designing, synthesizing and evaluating four Aromatase inhibitors, one of these combinations is a strong inhibitor of Aromatase.

The combinations used in the medicine are easy to be made and of high purity. They are economical and they cost lower comparing to the foreign version.

Iran has taken wide strides in science and technology, particularly in medical and medicinal fields, in recent years.

In August, former Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi

boasted the country’s astonishing progress in producing medical tools, equipment and drugs, and said Iran stands 12 in the world ranking of biomedicine production.

“Iran ranks 1st in the region, 4th in Asia and 12th in the world in producing biological drugs,” Vahid Dastjerdi said in a ceremony in Tehran at the time to unveil 8 new types of hi-tech medicines used for treating various kinds of diseases.

She also announced that the global exports value of biomedicine industry stands at $1,000bn, and Iran can have a large share of this figure.

ISNA

Iranian researchers build medical hormone to cure breast cancer

An Iranian researcher in a lab

Dr. Reshma Khan checks Angela Pearson’s lungs at the beginning of her Ob/gyn visit on February 14, 2013. Khan established a free gynecological health center with funding from the Islamic Circle of North America Relief USA

Can Ugandan Muslim Doctors emulate this?

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By The Muslim News Family Desk

‘Aa’ishah Abid Choudry - her given name is Harumi - adopted her Muslim name and faith four years ago, at the age of 26, to marry a Pakistani. Two years later, like many Japanese women married to Muslim men in Japan, she remained reluctant to abide by Islamic laws. Then one day about two years ago, she decided to act on her own intuition that Islam meant having a personal relationship with Allaah [Arabic for God]. She got on her knees to pray for the first time. Her husband, a devout Muslim who had never asked her to adopt Islam but had prayed silently on her behalf for years, cried openly at the sight.

Once distant and unknown in Japan, Islam has found reverts among young Japanese women. Many are married to men who come to Japan to find work from countries with Islamic traditions such as Iran, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Malaysia.

A hub of Islamic activity in Tokyo, the Islamic Center in Setagay-ku registered over 80 new members this year, the majority were Japanese women.

Although some women reverted with no thought of marriage, many more reverted to Islam to marry Muslims; the center reports a record number of 40 marriages between foreign Muslims and Japanese women reverts this year.

Women are attracted to Islam because they want freedom. Islam gives them independence because they do not have to be a slave of any man. Islam is against

moral aggression against women. The chastity and honor of women are protected. No illicit relations are allowed. All these things attract women,” said Siddiqi.

Islamic law also provides that men may have more than one wife. “This cannot seem to leave Japanese heads,” said Siddiqi. “We explain one thousand times that marrying four times is permissible only in certain unavoidable circumstances such as impotency, infertility and so forth. As a result there is no prostitution in Islam. If you need another woman, then marry her, take care of her children.”

Asked why a woman can’t have more than one husband, Siddiqi explained, “Because she can’t decide on whose child it is. It is confusing for her.” (Japanese law uses the same logic, forbidding women to remarry within six months of divorce.) [In Islam the waiting period, ‘idda’ is shorter].

Japanese women who marry men from Islamic countries often face ostracism from their families and alienation from friends; living by Islamic laws requires major changes in nearly every aspect of their lives.

The new Muslim must also make major changes in her diet. Muslims who strictly follow the Qur’an may not consume pork and alcoholic beverages. Nor eat animal products that have not been blessed. Although lawful and blessed (halaal) products have become increasingly available from shops that specialize in halaal or imported products, many basic products sold in supermarkets are off limits to the Muslim.

How marriage leads Japanese women to Islam

By The Muslim News Family Desk

If you’re feeling that your husband does not love you anymore, you may be right. A lot of husbands, and wives, are not “in love” with their partners. However, most men have told me that this does not mean they do not love their wives, they’re just not “in love” with them.

So what can you do to get your husband to love you again? Here are a few suggestions.

UnconditionalMake your love of your husband unconditional. Do not make it dependent upon his loving you. When most of us feel unloved, it makes us resentful and angry. This can have the negative effect of making us less attractive, which contributes to our partners loving us even less. It also causes us to make our loving our partners conditional on them loving us first. (Note-Unconditional love doesn’t mean accepting abuse. If

your partner is emotionally, verbally, or physically abusive, set limits on accepting this behavior while you love him).

Respect This is a core need for men. When men don’t feel respected, they don’t feel loved. Like all of us, when we don’t feel loved by someone, it’s harder for us to them love back. Look for ways that you can show your husband respect. Such as asking for his input on a decision, including him in what’s going on with the kids, or letting him handle things he’s good at.

Praise Praise and validation are one of the key reasons for men having affairs and falling in love with someone else. This is something that without conscious effort can disappear from marriages over time. Then another woman comes along and starts to offer it and... (well you know the rest

of the story). Think back on when you first were courting and how you showered your husband with praises. Get back to doing this again.

DiscoverDiscover what you can change about yourself. Get help seeing the sides of you that he sees, but you can’t, and find out how you can make yourself more loveable. A marriage counselor is an excellent, objective expert to help you with this, especially a marriage counselor who knows men. This doesn’t mean losing weight or changing your hair, but rather changing how you interact with him, respond to him, speak to him. Patience Most partners don’t fall out of love over night, it happens slowly over time. Falling back in love happens the same way. So be sure to give it some time for the love to come back.

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Japanese women say they find Islam more fulfilling

Loving your husband unconditionally will win him back

The most obvious obligatory symbol of the Muslim woman is the veil (‘Hijaab’) that covers her head, and the long sleeves, and pants that cover her limbs. Countries have variations on this; Saudi women cover the nose and mouth as well, while Malaysian Muslims [women] wear short scarves over their heads.

An energetic face framed within her black Hijaab, Aysha says, “I wasn’t born a Muslim, so I’m strict (about Islam). Before I became a Muslim, I was the secretary to a company president so I drank alcohol, played, wore miniskirts, everything. After I became a Muslim, everything changed. I threw away or gave away five bags of clothing. To become a good Muslim takes time, though.”

Although strict Islamic life may not be incongruous with lifestyles in Muslim countries, in Japan, Islam means accepting a life radically different from the ordinary Japanese. Perhaps, for some, herein lies

the appeal.Before I became a Muslim I didn’t know

what I was put here on earth for. I thought that the purpose of working was to make other people think highly of me. I believed that a person’s worth was based on what university he went to and how much money he made. Now I know that work is to nourish my body and I am here to live each day to praise Allah,” said a woman in her 20’s married to a Pakistani.

Others, like Noureen, a 30-year-old teacher of nursing at a women’s university in Saitama, had tried other religions, including Christianity, which she found unsatisfying before finding Islam. She met her husband, a 29-year-old Pakistani factory worker, while attending study sessions at the Islamic Center (their trip home took them in the same direction) and officially became a Muslim before their marriage four years ago.

How to make your husband love you again

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Young muslims are advised to make du’a for Allah to help them find the right partner

Courtship in Islam

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“Dating” as it is currently practiced in much of the world does not exist among Muslims -- where a young man and woman (or boy/girl) are in a one-on-one intimate relationship, spending time together alone, “getting to know each other” in a very deep way before deciding whether that’s the person they will marry. Rather, in Islam pre-marital relationships of any kind between members of the opposite sex is forbidden.

The choice of a marriage partner is one of the most important decisions a person will make in his or her lifetime. It should not be taken lightly, nor left to chance or hormones. It should be taken as seriously as any other major decision in life - with prayer, careful investigation, and family involvement.

So in today’s world, how do young people manage? First of all, Muslim youth develop very close friendships with their same-sex peers. This “sisterhood” or “brotherhood” that develops when they are young continues throughout their lives.

When a young person decides to get married, the following steps often take place:lYoung person makes du’a for

Allah to help him or her find the right personlThe family enquires, discusses,

and suggests candidates. They consult with each other to narrow down potential prospects. Usually the father or mother approaches the other family to suggest a meeting.lCouple agrees to meet in

chaperoned, group environment. Umar related that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, “Not one of you should meet a woman alone unless she is accompanied by a relative (mahram)” (Bukhari/Muslim). The Prophet (peace be upon him) also reportedly said, “Whenever a man is alone with a woman, Satan (Shaytan) is the third among them” (Tirmidhi). When young people are getting to know each other, being alone together is a temptation toward wrongdoing. At all times, Muslims should follow the commands of the Qur’an (24:30-31) to “lower their gaze and guard their

modesty....” Islam recognises that we are human and are given to human weakness, so this rule provides safeguards for our own sake.lFamily investigates candidate

further - talking with friends, family, Islamic leaders, co-workers, among others, to learn about his or her character.lCouple prays salat-l-istikhara

(prayer for guidance) to seek Allah’s help in making a decision.lCouple agrees to pursue marriage

or part ways. Islam has given this freedom of choice to both young men and women - they cannot be forced into a marriage that they don’t want.

This type of focused courtship helps ensure the strength of the marriage, by drawing upon family elders’ wisdom and guidance in this important life decision. Family involvement in the choice of a marriage partner helps assure that the choice is based not on romantic notions, but rather on a careful, objective evaluation of the compatibility of the couple. That is why these marriages often prove successful.

The most common question young people ask is: “Do

Muslims date?” and “If they don’t date, how do they decide

whom to marry?”

‘My Wife Doesn’t Love Me Anymore’Tips to Get Your Wife BackBy The Muslim News Family Desk

Before you decide that you are willing to make concessions to getting your wife back, you need to ask yourself whether it is even a potential. After all, it takes two to make a relationship and if your wife has emotionally abandoned the relationship then the chances are good that she simply won’t be interested in trying a re-do. How do you tell if your wife is feeling this? Well, the first step is to ask yourself if she is indifferent and distant to you. Does she even try to pursue conversation? If not, then chances are good you have lost her.

All this said, there are some tips on how to get your wife back.

Win your wife back by proving to her that she can trust you. This is very important. If your wife can’t trust you, then chances are good that you will never win her back. Trust is something that is earned and if the reason why she is no longer interested is because of a breach of trust, then the road is going to be long and difficult.

Telling her is one thing. Prove it to her. Prove to her that she can trust you. Fight for her and let her know that you aren’t going to go down without a fight.

Win your wife back by reminiscing about the old days- We all like to think of things and how they used to be. Just by remembering what it was that brought you two together in the first place could be a good point in which she may think that change is possible. And this little opening could be your way back into her life.

Start thinking about why it is that she doesn’t love you anymore- There is a reason why people fall in and out of love and people do change. But typically, there are reasons why your wife has made the decision and chances are good, if you are totally honest with yourself, that you can pretty much guesstimate where the problems lay. If it isn’t another person, then chances are good that if you can identify the problem, then you can start to take steps to make things right.

This can be something as simple as actually listening to what she has to say and communicating with her. Most of the women who divorce their husbands cite lack of emotional involvement on the husband’s side as a reason for divorce.

Getting your wife back may be hard but in most cases, it isn’t out of the question. If you can restore her trust in you and make a few changes in your life, then you should be able to get your wife back.

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Part III

By abubakar Sematimba

UFa demands the resignation of FUFa administrators

The Uganda Footballers’ Association, (UFA) the umbrella of Soccer players led by former SC Villa Dan Walusimbi, accused the Federation of Uganda football Association (FUFA) of not recognizing their contribution to the development of the game, UFA gave the federation two weeks to respond to their grievances but all in vain.

According to the Association’s president Walusimbi, FUFA not only failed to follow the rules and regulations of the game, but also to protect the players. As a result they lost all the trust in the federation. “We are demanding for a normalization committee to be put in place, they should step aside,” Walusimbi fumed.

CommunityThe community has a role to play if we are dreaming of taking soccer to another level in this country, our children have no where to play and demonstrate their talents, all the grounds have been either sold to the

so called investors and turned into supermarkets, farms and residential areas.

Our Children today spend more hours on video games, music, surfing the internet or watching cartoons, and pornography on TVs and PCs. No supervision in the house at all, they are left with maids who do not mind and care about anything other than receiving their monthly salaries and their day’s meals.

For God’s sake how can you identify talents and skills from children who spend time indoors and expect to compete with countries like Brazil where children spend more hours playing soccer and other games?

Many of great players that Uganda had the likes of Masajjagge, Mubiru Tanker, Issa Ssekatawa, Denis Obua, Majid Musisi, Steven Bogere, Philip Omondi, Robert Aroro, Isaack Nkaada (Iron Man) and many more had humble beginnings.

They played village soccer and the local authorities allocated areas for children to play in, all that is gone today, the community is also to blame for being greedy and forgetting the future of its children.

Coaches will be hired from all over the four corners of the world and if possible from the heavens, but

the state of our soccer will remain the same, until we go back to the drawing board to find out what really happened to the beautiful game then we take it from there..

CoachingUganda has the potential to train and groom its coaches using the local Universities and other institutions of learning. It’s high time we hired a local coach to take over the responsibility of our soccer team the Cranes.

People like Jackson Mayanja and Sam Simbwa have good records, why are they not given a chance. FUFA must stopped hiring foreigners at least for now, and give a chance to the local breed.

The local coaches have the country at heart, once given the opportunity they can do the job even better.

Jabberi Bidandi Ssali drove the Uganda Cranes to the finals of 1978 in Ghana, no foreign coach in 40 years has reached this far, but think about how many millions the tax payer has lost in hiring these ineffective expatriates - millions of shillings which would have been invested in the local experts.

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Why our soccer will take ages to grow

The Uganda Cranes continues to dominate regional football but like in Nigeria’s case, a local coach could boost its performance even further

Ugly Ugandan Soccer Fans Spoil Game’s Image

By Mukuye Wahab

Ugandan sports ‘managers’ are pointing fingers at one another in the role played to slower down sports in the country as fans continue to ‘dislike’ football matches especially at club level and national level to some extent. It is something I have always found unfortunate even where it is true.

Since the two different leagues started last year, we have witnessed both FUFA super league and USL league with empty stadium whether it is Express vs Villa, URA vs KCCA, and unfortunately television cameras have picked up images of large swathes of empty seats outnumbering fans in the stadium! This is not what we had earlier expected. Perhaps there are issues behind it.

Majority of fans at the game behave indecently. If you listen to some of them, they are abusive and miserably obscene! Some throw stones on the pitch, others at-tack referees and coaches not forgetting some lunatics that exposing their nakedness.

Should we say that they do all this to compensate for the lack of action on the field? When I watch our local football, I become excited, frustrated and aggrieved but not bored, but perhaps people realize that they have more important things to do than football.

Islam teaches decent dressing avoiding vulgar language and respecting one another in all capacities. It is high time FUFA and government imposed tough restrictions to prevent soccer fans from nasty behav-ing so us to attract the elderly, young and responsible people back to the stadia.

email mukuyewahab@yahoo.co.uk

When you can’t watch football with your children….

Decent fans make soccer attractive

19The Muslim News 23 Jumada II - 6th Rajab 14yiga obusiramu

Ekitundu –iii

Obusiraamu ye ddiini ey’Obubumbwa, tekoonagana na MageziObusiraamu bukwata ku bantu bonna. Ama teeka gaabwo amakulu gaakolebwa ssi kusinziira ku bintu ebigwawo obugwi, eby’ekiseera, oba ebintu eby’enjawulo ebitajjudde (ebikendeevu), wabula gaa­teekebwawo okusinziira ku butonde obwanamad dala n’ebyetaago by’abantu ebituukagana n’engeri gye baatondebwamu. Olw’ensonga eno, Obusiraamu ddiini ya bubumbwa eteggwa ku mulembe. Emi singi gyayo egy’obukkiriza tegyesigamiziddwa ku bintu bya kuteebereza, wabula byesigamiziddwa ku magezi n’ebintu ebya ddala eby’eyolefu. Olw’ensonga eyo, Obusiraamu tebukoonagana na bintu ebituufu ebya saayansi. Bwe weetegereza ebiragiro ebikwata ku kusinza n’enkola, kyeyolekerawo engeri ennungi ebiragiro ebyo gye bigya mu butonde bw’omuntu. Okuva amagezi bwe gali ekitendo ekisinga oku­beera ekikulu mu muntu, Kulaane amaanyi egassa ku kukozesa amagezi n’okulowooza. Kulaane eyita abantu balowooze, bakole okunoonyereza, era bako zese amagezi mu ngeri yonna esoboka mu aya nga lusanvu mu ataano (750).

Abantu abatakkiriza Mubaka wa Allah bwe baa gamba nti: “Tulage ku byamagero ebimu tusobole okukkiriza Allah era tukukkiririzeemu nga omuba ka,” Allah ekirowoozo kyabwe teyakyagala. Yabakuu tira bukuutizi okutunuulira ensi ne mu bbanga ba birowoolerezeeko okusinga okwagala okulaba ebya magero olwo basobole okukkiriza.

Okuva Obusiraamu lwe buteeka ennyo essira ku magezi, bugaana ekintu kyonna ekiyinza okubikka amagezi n’okutegeera okugeza ng’ebitamiiza n’ebira galalagala (enjaga). Kitegeerekeka mu magezi aga bu­lijjo nti ekisingako obulungi eri abantu kwe kubeera abazuukufu okusinga okubeera abatategeera bulungi (abatamidde), era nti obugayaavu oba obutamiivu tebulina mugaso gwe bireeta eri omuntu.

Ekiva Busiraamu okubeera eddiini y’obubum bwa, kwe kuba nga bulijjo buteekawo amateeka agasoboka. Teri kiragiro mu Busiraamu kitasoboka kuteekebwa mu nkola – era teri kiragiro kizibu mu butonde bwa muntu. Ebimu ku by’okulabirako bye bino:

Bwe waba tewali mazzi gamala kutawaaza (okufuna wuzu) oba omuntu bw’aba nga tasobola kukozesa mazzi olw’ensonga ezeekuusa ku bulamu, omuntu oyo asobola okukozesa ettaka ettukuvu (kye bayita tayammum).

Singa omuntu tasobola kusaala ng’ayimirid de, esswala ye asobola okugisaala ng’agalamidde oba n’okulaza n’omutwe.

Okusiiba bwe kuba tekusoboka kukolebwa mu buliwo, kusobola okukolebwa mu biseera eby’omu maaso oba okuwa abaavu ssente (oba eby’okulya) mu kifo ky’okusiiba.

Okuwaayo omutemwa ogw’etteeka mu

EDDIINI ENTUKUVU Eyakomererayo Busiraamu

ne ssekuwagira yenna Saayansi era ne bukifuula kya buwaze eri abasajja n’abakazi okunoonya okuma nya. Ku ludda olulala, n’ebivumbulwa mu Saayansi tebiragangayo nsobi yonna eri mu Busiraamu; wa bula ate buli kaseera bigenda bikakasa bukakasa Obusiraamu bye busomesa era nga tewali nsonga lwaki byandiwakanyizza Obusiraamu bye busomesa. Saayansi agezaako okuvumbula amateeka g’ebintu ebiriwo ebyo Allah bye yatonda nga (saayansi) ayita mu kubinoonyerezaako. Obusiraamu ddiini ya Ka tonda era ng’ekuumibwa

mu mbeera yaayo nga bwe yajja. Olwo n’ebeera nga ya byombiriri. Okuvumbula n’okutumbulwa okwa Saayansi gye bigenda bikoma okukolebwa, n’ekitiibwa kya Allah, amaanyi ge n’oku manya kwe ensonga ebitaliiko kkomo gye bikoma okweyongera okumanyibwa obulungi, era n’okukki­riza kw’abantu mu Allah gye kukoma okunnyikira. Olw’ensonga eyo, Saayansi kitundu ekiri munda mu Busiraamu.

(Lindiriria ekitundu iV mu katabo kaffe akanaddako)

Busi raamu (zaka) oba okulamaga olw’e Makka (okukola hijja) bikakata (bifuuka faradhwa) ku bantu abo bo kka abalina eby’obugagga ebimala.

Omuntu ayita abantu okuyingira Obusiraa­mu avunaanyizibwa ku kubannyonnyola bunnyon nyozi Obusiraamu mu ngeri esikiriza; talina kukola “kyonna ekyetaagisa okulaba ng’abantu abo bafuuka Basiraamu.”

teri munnaddiini akola nga kayungirizi wakati wa katonda n’abaddu be / teri kibinja (kyetongodde) ekya Bannaddiini mu BusiraamuOmumanyi omu ow’Obusiraamu yagamba nti: “Amakubo agatuusa omuntu eri Allah mangi nnyo ng’omukka ebitonde gwe bissa.” Okukissa mu bigam bo ebirala, buli muntu alina eddembe okutuusaako Katonda by’ayagala butereevu. Buli bantu basobola okulaajanira Allah nga bayita mu sswala zaabwe wamu n’okumusaba okusonyiyibwa. Omuntu bw’ad da eri Allah mu bwesimbu, ajja kumusanga ng’ali naye.

Katonda bulijjo akuutira abantu okusaala n’oku saba okusonyiyibwa. Akyoleka bulungi nti ye Musaa sizi ennyo, ajja okusonyiwa ebyonoono ng’ayita mu kwanukula edduwa zaabwe. Okwanukula edduwa n’okusonyiwa ebyonoono Allah Yekka y’akukola. Kino kiri kityo kubanga Ye wa maanyi. Teri kitonde kisobola kukozesa buyinza bwe. Okulabira obuyinza bwa Allah mu kitonde kyonna kubalibwa nga “ku sinza bakatonda abangi.”

Mu Busiraamu bannaddiini tebeetaagisa mu bintu ng’okusinza, okusaba oba ebikwatagana n’okuwasa (oba okufumbirwa). Buli Musiraamu alina okuyiga ebikwata ku ddiini nga bwe yeetaaga. Abasi raamu bwe bakunngaana okusaala, beerondamu oyo abasinga okumanya n’okutya Katonda abakulembere (abeere Imaamu waabwe). Omulimo gw’abamanyi Abasiraamu gukoma ku kunnyonnyola n’okusomesa emisingi gy’eddiini, n’okutangaaza n’okulunngamya abalala eri ekkubo ettuufu nga bababuulirira n’oku­bawa amagezi. Tebalina maanyi kusonyiwa byonoo no oba okwanukula edduwa nga bayita mu kwekiika wakati wa Katonda n’abaddu be.

Abantu bwe baatandika okuteekawo bakayungirizi wakati wa Katonda n’abaddu be, ekyavaamu kwali kutandika kusinza masanamu. Bamusinzabi bumbe b’e Makka beewozangako nti ensonga yokka eyabasinzisanga amasanamu (ebifaananyi oba ebi bumbe) kubeeranga baali bageetaaga okubasembeza okumpi ne Katonda. Ekiseera bwe kyayita baatan­dika okutuuma bakayungirizi abo ebitendo n’amaa nyi eby’obwakatonda.

Obusiraamu Buwagira Okuyiga Omuli Saayansi, Amagezi n’EddiiniN’okutuusa kati tewali kwawukana oba butak kiriziganya wakati w’Obusiraamu ne Saayansi. Obu siraamu tebwakoma ku butawera Saayansi mu bya faayo byabwo byonna; wabula ate buzze buwagira

Abantu bwe baatandika okuteekawo bakayungirizi wakati wa Katonda n’abaddu be, ekyavaamu kwali kutandika kusinza masanamu

Masjid Mousa, Hotel Africana, nga ekolera wamu ne Pearl FM, Leediyo yammwe enganzi baatandikawo omulimu ogw’okukungaanya abikozesebwa mu bulamu obwa bulijjo nga bigabibwa eri abasiraamu abeetaavu mu bitundu eby’ebyaalo. Wadde nga okusinga tukungaanya bikadde, n’ebipya byaanirizibwa ne ssanyu.

Tukungaanya bibo wa mangav Qur’anv Yassarnav Engoye ez’abakulu n’abaanav Amasweeta, Amakooti, Amakanzuv Hijaabu /Shariat ez’ abakyaalav Bulangiti, Amasuukav Ebikopo, Fulasika (Flasks), Amasowaani, Ebijiiko, Amasepiki, Amabinikav Obudomola obutono wamu n’ebinene ebya pulasitika, Amabensaniv Toochi, Ettaala z’omukono ne za sitimav Ebitabo ebipya ebiwaandiikibwaamu (exercise books)v Ebitabo ebikadde aby’amasomo ag’enjawulo n’emitendera gyonna v Ennoni, Ekkalaamu enkalu ne za bwiinov Ensawo ezisitula ebitabo byabasomi (school bags)v Laadiyo (radios), Kompyuta (Computers), Pulinta (Printers)v Engatto, sapatu

Bwoba olina ekintu kyonna nga tokyeetaaga oba nga okyeetaaga naye nga wandyagadde okiwe basiraamu banno abakusinga okubeera obubi, bitwaale obikwaase Imaam ku mizikiti gino:

l Masjid Mousa, Hotel Africanal Nakasero Mosquel Masjid Noor Ku Williamu situliitil Omuzigiti gwa Jamaa ku (Enagye Senta) Energy Centrel Omuzikiti gwo ku Maketi situliiti (Market street)l Makerere University Mosquel Makere University Business School Mosquel Kibuli Mosquel Kansanga Mosquel Kabalagala Mosquel Katwe Mosquel Mukwano Mosque, Industrial Areal Mawanga Mosque, Munyonyo

Bwoba olina kyeweebuuza kyonna ku mulimu gwa Allah guno, kuba essimu zino:

J Sheikh Hameed, Imam Masjid Musa, Hotel Africana 0701 556 602J Haji Kaliisa Karim, Pearl FM 0701 555 000

Omuyima(Patron) w’omulimu guno ye Haji Bulayimu Muwanga Kibirige, Chairman, BMK Group of Companies.

Kino KirangoWeegatte ku mulimu gw’okuyamba abasiraamu

abateesobola abali mu byaalo

Tukungaanya bino wa manga

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Ggoba obwavu ng’olima obutikoEKITUNDU II

Bya Bakkabulindi Kagimu

Mu mboozi yaffe Goba obwavu ng’olima obutiko mu katabo kaffe akasembayo twakoma tumaliriza okuyiga batya okuzimba ennyumba erimirwamu obutiko. Omulundi guno tugenda kutunuulira ebirala.

Ng’omaliriza okutegeka ennimiro gy’ogenda okubulimiramu kakasa nti osimbamu enkondo era bwomaliriza n’ozitekako enzizi gamba emiti egy’obukiika ng’egyo gyegijja okuwanirira ekiveera ekinabikka obuttiko nga butandiise okumera okwewala obubu oba ensowera eziyinza okubuviirako okuvunda.

Kakasa nti ekipiira (ekiswa) ekirimu ensigo yaffeeya katiko okiziise mu ttaka munnyiriri era ezirimu amabanga olw’okubusobozesa okwetaaya era n’okusobola okubukulamu nga butusiza okukungulwa.

OKUFUKIRIRA OBUTIKOObutiko okusobola okukula obulungi bwetaaga obunyogovu obumala, kino osobola okukituukako nga oyita mu kufukirira emirundi ebiri buli lunaku. Akatiko nga tekanaba kuvaayo osobola okukozesa ekidomola ekimanyiddwa nga “watering can” okwetoloola mwewaziika ebipiira byaffe naye bwe butandiika okumera awo no olina kukozesa akadomola oba kikopo ng’ofukirira mu mabanga ago gewalekamu kubanga akatiko ka ntondo nnyo era bwekatonyako amazzi kikaviirako okuvunda wamu n’okukyusa erangi ekikakanya omutindo gwaako. Singa olaba nga amazzi gewafukiriddeemu ku makya gakyaalimu, akawungeezi oyinza obutafukirira wabula n’obubikula okumala eddakiika ana busobole okussa n’okufulumya ebbugumu eriri mu ttaka.

OKUKUNGULA OBUTIKOAkatiko kimera kya ntondo nnyo, singa akakyafu konna kakakagwaako kyandikavirako okuddugala konna n’olw’ensonga eyo, kakasa nti engalo zo nnyonjo ekisukiridde era obeere n’akambe nga bwomala okukuula bw’okalakatako ettaka osobole okukuuma omutindo gw’ako.

EBY’OBULAMU EBIRI MUBUTIKOObutiiko obubisi bukyuka okuva kubitundu 70-95 kubuli kikumi okusinzira kumbera yobudde nekisera kyamakungula, ate akatiiko akakalu kali ebitundu 10-13 kubuli kikumi.

Obutiiko obubiisi bulina 1.75 ku 5.9 kukikumi ebyebilisa ebizimba omubiri, ate businga emicungwa emirundi 12 nebirala.

OKUGERAGERANYA EBIRIISA EBIZIMBA OMUBIRI MU BUTIKO KU BIRALA.

ENYAMA: Ey’ente 12-20, Ey’enkoko 18-20, Amata 2.5-3.3, Eby’enyanja 18-20 kubuli kikumi.N’EBIRIME EBIRALA: Omuceere 19-35, Engano 7.5, Soya 12.7, Kasoli 9.41 kubuli kikumi.

OBUTIIKO N’EBYENFUNADr. Emmanuel Rekeraho (Ayuzvedic physician & Mushroom international Trainer) agamba nti, “okunonyereza okwakolebwa UN kuraga nti obutiko busobola okuba eky’ ettunzi era n’omulimu, okutumbula ebyenfuna n’enkolagana y’abantu okutondawo emirimu no kwongera amanyi mu byenfuna by’abakyala nabami okusingira ddala mu byaalo”.

Dr. Rekeraho agamba nti, Egwanga lya China kyekyokurabilako anti mu 1978 lyafuna ttani z’obutiko emitwalo mukaaga (60,000), ate mu 2006 China yafuna ttani obukadde 14 nga byakola omuwendo 70 ku kikumi munsi yona. Okusinziira ku mbalirira y’omwaka 2006, China yafuna Dola obukadde mu 6 okuva mubutiko.’

Ayongera n’agamba nti mu 2006 abakozi mumakolero g’obutiko mu China bali basukka obukadde asatu (30) nga bano be bitundu 10 ku kikumi abali ne mirimu mu gwanga elyo. Obulimi buno bwangu nyo kubanga mu nnaku musanvu omulimi aba ataandise kukungula n’okufuna amagoba.

Obutiko buyambye nyo abavubuka awamu n’abakyala okwetonderawo emirimu ate lino ddagala ery’obwavu mu bana Uganda. Bwetaaga awantu watono nyo ate bulimibwa ku ttaka ly’ona ly’osanze. Kino kitegeza nti omuntu n’obwaba omwavu nga tolina kibanja oba nga obera mu kibuga osobola kulima obutiko.

Dokita Rekeraho agamba nti, mu buwanvu n’obugazi bwa kifunba (mita) emu eri mukayumba walimibwamu ebiswa 64 ate ekiswa kimu kisobola okukungulwaamu okuva ku kilo biri (2kg) okutuusa ku kilo nnya (4kg) mukisera okuva ku naku musanvu kutusa ku myezi esatu.

OBUTIKO MUKATALEDr.Emmanuel Rekeraho agamba nti mukatale ka Uganda okunonyereza kulaga nti obutiiko bugula wakati wa Shs4,000 -7,000 ezaffe eza Uganda buli kilo. Ate mukatale k’ensi yonna obutiko bugula wakati wa silingi 8000 -12000 ezaffe eza Uganda.

Bw’ogoberera ebyo byonna ebikuwereddwa tosobola kusigala mu bwavu kubanga ennaku zino akatiko kali ku ttunzi nnyo olw’emigaso entotoolo gyekalina eri obulamu bw’omuntu. Mwebale nnyo.

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BULANGE – Maama wa Buganda Nnaabagereka Sylvia Naginda akunze abasajja okujjumbira okwekomoza nga lyerimu ku makubo aganaasobola okukendeeza emikisa gy’omuntu okufuna akawuka ka mukenenya nnamutta.

Bino maama Nnaabagereka abyogeredde ku mukolo ogw’okutongoza kawefube owokulaba nga bakendeeza ensaasanya ya kawuka kamukeneya okuva kubamaama okudda ku baana abazaalibwa, ogwabadde mu luggya lwa Bulange e Mengo mu wiiki eno gyetukubye amabega.

Maama Nnaabagereka abikudde ekyama nagamba nti kati musanyufu olw’omuwendo gw’abaana abazaalibwa nga balina akawuka ka sirimu ogukidde ddala okuva kubitundu kkumi nabitaano negudda ku wakati w’ebitundu musaanvu ne kkumi ku buli kikumi okuva kaweefube waabwe lweyatandika mu mwaka gwa 2009. Maama ayongedde n’agamba nti mu America omuwendo gw’abaana abazaalibwa n’akawuka gw’akoma mu 2009, era naffe tetuggwaamu Suubi, era alina okukkiriza nti wetunaatukira mu mwaka 2015, tujja kuba tufuma kafume mu baana abazaalibwa.

Mu ngeri yeemu Nnaabagereka asabye abantu bw’obwakabaka okujjumbira okwekebeza akawuka ate naabo abakafuna edda obutagayaalirira kukozesa ddagala erikaweweeza (ARVS) nga bwebalagiddwa abasawo, wamu ne bannakazadde obutagayaalirira kugenda mu malwaliro mu kiseera nga bali mbuto.

Olw’okuba nti akawuka ka sirimu kasinga kwegirisiza mu Buganda, maama Nnaabagereka asabye abakulu be bika, abamasaza, aba magombolola n’abaami ba Kabaka ab’emitendera egy’enjawulo okwettanira okwetaba mu makubo gona ag’okukendeeza n’okugoba akawuka ka mukenenya mu bantu be bakulembera.

Ate ye Minisita w’eby’obulamu mubwakabaka bwa Buganda Owek. Nelson Kawalya asabye abaami obutagayaala okuyamba ku bakyala baabwe mu kaseera nga bazito era n’okubawerekerako mu malwaliro gyebafunira obujjanjabi. Omukolo gw’egumu gwetabiddwako abakulu be bika, abamasaza, abamagombolola n’abaami ba Kabaka ab’emitendera egy’enjawulo.

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Omwaaka kati guweze mulamba okuva Sheikh Abdu Karim Sentamu

akubibwa amasasi agamutta bweyali nga ava mu darasa ku Masjid Noor, William Street ku lw’okutaano nga 20/4/2012. Abasiraamu baafuna ekitengo n’okwennyamira okw’ekitalo. Mu kumusaalira ku muzikiti e Nakasero, abaayogera nga balina nebiyengeyeenge, mwalimu Jajja wobusiraamu Omulangira Kassim Nakibinge. Kw’olwo yakangula ne ku ddoboozi eteri mbeera ye, nga asaba gavumenti abasse Sentamu bakwaatibwe mu bwangu. Omuduumizi wa Poliisi owo ku ntikko Gen Kale Kayihura naye yaliwo era nakakasa abasiraamu nti omuyiggo gwaatandise dda era nga omutemu bagya kumukwaata bategeeze eggwanga. Ye seeka Muzaata yawera nti tewali agya kubatiisatiisa kuva ku mulamwa era naye nga mwetegefu okugoberera Sentamu, naye nga tajja kusirika.

Sheikh Sentamu weyafiira nga alina egyobukulu 51. Yali mpagi luwaga mu kibiina Jumuiat Daawah Assalafiya era nga assibwaamu nnyo ekitiibwa abasiraamu mu Uganda bonna nga tewali kwawulamu. Omusajja omusirise ate nga mwetowaze, kigambibwa nti ye mumanyi eyali akyasinze mu Uganda mu mulembe guno. Yali asoma obudde nebukya ate nga byasomye bwabisomesa abasiraamu aba buli ngeri -abato, abakulu, abaami, abakyaala, abaavu n’abalinawo - nga tasosoddeemu. Tewali yamubuuza kibuuzo ku busiraamu namukaayukira nebwekyali nga kifanana kitya. Bwekiba nga ekigendererwa ky’okutta Sentamu kwali kutta

mumanyi- ekyo eyamutta yakifuna. Uganda yafiirwa omumanyi atazzikawo mu kakyo kano. Wabula oba ekigendererwa kyaali kya kuleeta njawukana mu basiraamu ba Uganda, ekyo kyamulema okutuukiriza. Mawulire agawuddiisa agaasaasaana nga gagamba nti okufa kwe kuvudde kunkaayana eziriwo mu busiraamu mu Uganda gaabadibiririra era nnebagavaako. Okuttibwa kwa Sheikh Sentamu kwagatta abasiraamu bonna mu Uganda. Era abaamuziika ku limbo ya basiraamu e Nkowe baalaba enkuyanja y’omuntu eyamuwerekera okuva mu biwayi byonna ebyobusiraamu mu Uganda.

Era ekigendererwa kyokutta Sheikh Sentamu bwekiba kyaali kunafuya kibiina kye ekya batabbuliki abasalafu – ekyo nakyo kyamulema okutuukiriza. Ekibiina kino kyeyongedde okunyweera n’okusimba amakanda mu Uganda yonna era abaasigala wo baafuna obuvumu obutabaangawo obw’okutwaala omulimu gwa Sheikh Sentamu

mu maaso. Tekuba kusaakiriza bwetugamba nti ekibiina kino eky’abasalafu kyekisinga okubeera n’enkola ennungamu mu bibiina by’obusiraamu ebiriwo kati mu Uganda. Kati kikulembwerwa Sheikh Yunus Kamoga. Ekibiina kino kyafuna okusoomozebwa okulala bwekyafiirwa empagi luwaga endala, Amir waakyo, Sheik Abdul Hakim Sekimpi bweyafa mu ngeri

ey’amangu nga waakayita emyeezi esatu gyokka oluvanyuma lwa Sheik Sentamu. Kati ekifo kya Sheik Sekimpi ekya Deputy Supreme Mufti kyaddamu Sheikh Mahmoud Kibaate.

Obulamu bwa Sentamu bwalimu obuwonvu n’obugga. Yakwaatibwa mu mwaka gwa 1998 ne munywaanyi we Mustafa Bahiga nga kati ye Amir wa Kampala ne basibiwa e Luzira ku musango gw’okulyaamu ensi yaabwe olukwe. Bweyayimbulwa mu mwaka 2000, nagenda mu buwanganguse e Bungereza gyeyamala akaseera. Eyo yagyibwaanyo nga yeyeesikidde na kanyeebwa abazungu bwebamutikka ku nyonyi emuzza e Uganda nga alina empale emu ne ka Ti-ssaati keyalimu! Teyamala kaseera naddamu omulimu gwe gweyali asinga okwaagala – ogwokusomesa abasiraamu ba Allah, okutuusa omuzigu bweyamukuba masasi omwaaka oguwedde. Wabula kirabika yali akimanyi nti waliwo abbaga okumutuusaako obulabe.

Okuva lweyava e Bungereza, yali asula bu bifo eby’enjawulo era nga tatambula nnyo kiro yadde okufuna abagenyi waasula. Olumu beyali asomesa, yayogerako ku lukwe lwokutta bamaseeka abamanyi mu buvanjuba bwa Afirika (East Africa).

Era nga wayise emyeezi ena gyokka okuva Sheikh Sentamu lweyakubwa amasasi agaamutta, nga 27/8/2012, Sheikh omukuukutivu e Mombasa ayitibwa Rogo yattibwa mu bukambwe, bweyali nga atwaala mukyaala we mu ddwaliro. Yakubwa amasasi 17 era nafiirawo. Mukyaaalwe Khania,ye yasimattuka n’ebisago mu kugulu.

Obutafaananako n’abasiraamu ba Uganda abaakuma eddembe nga babatidde owaabwe, bo abe Mombasa mu Kenya baakola effujo eritagambika okumala ennaku eziwerera ddala 4 nga e Mombasa tewali kitambula.

Eyatta Sheik Sentamau tanabankukwaatibwa na guno gujwa, wabula abasiraamu ba Uganda bakuumye eddembe, nga bwebasuubira nti gavumenti enebaako kyebategeeza ku nsonga ya seeka waabwe omwagala eyattibwa kati omwaaka mulamba oguyise. Omusajja eyamutta agambibwa okuba nga yali wa kitema nga ayambadde ka tissaati kaddugavu nga yeesibye akatambaala ku mutwe.

Ssentamu yaleka abaana 4 – Shafie, Sentamu, Rashida ne Bahia. Nga bwetulindirira okukwaatibwa kw’omutemu eyamutta, tulina emirimu ebiri emikulu. Ogusooka gwa ku sabira mwoyo gwe entakera, Allah agulamuze kisa amusonyiwe ebyamusobako. Ogw’okubiri kwekulabirira amaka ka Sheikh Sentamu nga ye bwe yali alabirira abaamutuukiriranga nga bali mu bwetaavu.

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Owek. Nelson Kawalya ng’akwasa Mw. Mugerwa satifiketi, wakati Owek.Mayengo, ku ddyo omw. Lubuulwa. (Ekifananyi kya Bakkabulindi Kagimu)

Bya Namubiru Procy Abayizi ba Kibuli SS nga bayita mu kibiina kyabwe Nkobazambogo ku lwokutaano oluwedde baakiise embuga ne bagula satifiketi ya bukadde bubiri zisobole okuyamba okuddukanya emirimu gy’obwakabaka.

Mu bubaka bwa katiikiro obwasomeddwa minister we by’obulamu mu bwakabaka bwa Buganda Owek. Nelson Kawalya, Katikkiro yasiimye nnyo abasomesa ba Kibuli SS olw’okukuuma ennono era n’okwagazisa abayizi obwakabaka bwabwe ekituusizza okuwaayo ensimbi enkumi bwezityo.

Yayongedde n’ asaba abakulembeze b’amasomero amalala okulabira ku be Kibuli mu buli nsonga yonna gamba okwagazisa abayizi baabwe ennimi enzaaliranwa.

Ate ye Owek. Nelson Kawalya yasabye abayizi okwekuuma ennyo n’ okwewala nawookeera

wa siriimu afuse zsisa byalo nga tasosodde mu myaka wadde obutonde.

Ate ye Omuyima w’ekibiina kya baganda Nkobazambogo mu somero eryo, Mugerwa Umaru yategeezezza nti ensimbi ezo basobodde okuzikunganya nga bayita mu kuvuganya mu nyumba z’ abayizi eziri mu somero nga enyumba eya Kakungulu yeyanywedde mu zinnaayo akendo n’emitalo Kinaana (800,000), neddirirwa Africa ne mitwalo attaano mumukaaga (560,000/=) ate yo Aga Khan emitwalo ataano mwebiri (520,0000. Luwangula yasonda n’emitwaalo abbiri mwesatu (230,000/=).

Omukolo gwegumu gwetabiddwaako Owek. Israel Mayengo, Omukungu Muganga Kateyanira akulira ekitongole kya satifiketi, Omuyima we nju ye Kibuli- Kakungulu omw. Lubuulwa Paul n’omusomesa w’oluganda Omw. Ntambi Francis.

Aba Kibuli SS Baaguze ya Bukadde

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Ekitundu –ii

Ekibuuzo – Ssi bulijjo nti kisoboka okufuna essanyu eryo mu buli maka. kaba kabonero ka mikisa emingi okutuuka ku ssanyu n’obutebenkevu eby’ekika ekyo. naye bwe tuba twagala okutuuka ku ddaala ery’essanyu bwe lityo, biki bye tuteekwa okussaako omwoyo?

Akakwakkulizo akasooka kwe kugoberera okulunngamya kw’Obusiraamu mu kulonda omubeezi asaanira. Omulamwa oguli mu kulunngamya kuno gwe gugamba nti abakkiriza tebandironze babeezi baabwe nga basinziira ku birungi eby’oku nsi kuno, okugeza endabika n’obugagga. Mpozzi ate okulonda kwandyesigamiziddwa ku bitendo eby’omwoyo, okugeza obukkiriza n’empisa.

Ku kino Nnabbi (okusaasira kwa Allah n’emirembe bibeere ku ye) agamba nti:

“Omukazi awasibwa olw’ebintu bina: obugagga bwe, amaka mw’asibuka, obulungi bwe oba eddiini ye.

Gezaako okuwasa alina eddiini; emikono gyo gifune ebirungi!” (Bukhari, Nikaah, VI, 123; Muslim, Radhwa, 53)

Wadde nga hadiisi eno eyogera ku bisaanyizo by’omukyala omutuufu, naye era esobola okukola ne mu kulonda omwami omutuufu, kubanga oku beera n’omubeezi omulongoofu kye kintu ekiddirira okubeera eky’omuwendo eri buli Musiraamu ky’alina okubeera nakyo bw’ova ku ky’okutya Katonda. Omwami omulongoofu ye mpagi etanyeenyezebwa ey’olubiri lw’amaka so ate omukyala

omulongoofukye ky’omuwendo ekisinga mu

by’okwewunda by’olubiri olwo. Kino kirambikibwa mu hadiisi ya Nnabbi (okusaasira kwa Allah n’emirembe bibeere ku ye) eno wammanga egamba nti:

“Eddaala ly’abantu lyekwese mu ddiini yaabwe; ekitiibwa kyabwe kyekwese mu magezi gaabwe; ate

obulungi bw’olulyo lwekwese mu bulungi bwa mpisa zaabwe [olukuumibwa obufumbo].”

Ekintu ekikulu eky’okubiri kwe kubeera omwegendereza mu ngeri abafumbo gye benkanankanamu.

Okwenakanankana kuteekwa okupimibwa okusinziira ku bisaanyizo nga obugagga, empisa n’amadaala ag’eby’obuwangwa. Amadaala agaddako oluvannyuma lwa gano abiri geesigama ku kukula kw’ebirowoozo n’amaanyi g’okusalawo. Okukula mu birowoozo kugenda kweyongera nga kuyita mu kunoonya okutuukirira mu bukkiriza n’okussa eddiini mu nkola; amaanyi g’okusalawo gayinza kutuukibwako nga gayita mu kutuukiriza Amateeka ga Katonda agakwata ku bye yalagira ne bye yagaana.

Amaka ag’emirembe, omwo ebiragiro bya Allah ne bye yegaana mwe bituukirizibwa, gwe musingi gw’essanyu ary’amaanyi mu nsi muno era nga kye kimu ku byengera bya Katonda waffe. Okugenderera kw’essanyu n’ebyengera kuyimiridde ku kutegeeragana n’okwagala okwewaayo.

Ennaku zino, ekintu ekikulu ekisinga okuvaako okusereba kw’amaka ag’edda be bakyala abagezaako okwefaanaanyiriza abasajja n’abasajja abagezaako okwefaanaanyiriza abakazi.

Allah yawa abasajja n’abakazi ebitendo eby’enjawulo ebibaawula. Ebitendo bino byakolebwa mu ngeri esobozesa buli bamu okukola ekisinga obulungi mu kitundu mwe bawangaalira.

Ebitendo eby’obutonde eby’abasajja n’abakazi okuva ku nkula yaabwe gye balabikamu okutuuka ku mpunda y’emyoyo gyabwe, byatondebwa okusinziira ku buvunaanyizibwa Allah Oweekitiibwa bweyabawa. Abasajja beetaaga okubeera n’amaanyi ag’omwoyo n’omubiri basobole okulabirira amaka n’okugakulembera.

Abakazi tebavunaanyizibwa ku kufunira maka bya kugayimirizaawo. Bwe baba nga bakakiddwa okugalabirira okwo

kuba kuyiikiriza nakubateeka mu buzibu, kubanga

abakazi tebaatondebwa kupakasiza maka bye ganaayimirirako, wabula baatondebwa kukuza na kukuuma baana. Wabula singa embeera ebeetoolodde n’embeera eya wamu nga bisaanira, olwo abakazi bayinza okukola mu bifo ebituukana n’embeera zaabwe ez’obutonde, okugeza ng’okubeera abasomesa b’abawala mu masomero ga Kulaane, oba okubeera abajjanjabi abakola ku ndwadde z’abakyala n’okubazaalisa.

Busobozi obw’obutonde bwe bufuula abasajja n’abakazi nga ba njawulo naye nga buli bamu bajjuuliriza ebya bannaabwe. Abafumbo bwe basussa ensalo

z’ebintu bino ebyeyawulidde buli omu, olwo essanyu ly’amaka liba lituuse okwonooneka. Tuteekwa n’okwogera ku kino nti obuyinza obuweebwa abasajja tebuwa buli musajja bbeetu okukozesa amaanyi agasukkiridde era nti abakyala obugonvu omukyala bw’alina okulaga tebuteekeddwa kumutuusa ku ddaala lya kweyisa nga muddu. Singa bombi omusajja n’omukazi banoonya okukola emirimu gyabwe egya bulijjo nga bagoberera emisingi egyassibwawo Obusiraamu, waba tewajja kuba mu maka muntu anyigiriza munne oba gwe banyigiriza.

Omukazi okugyemera bba ng’amenya emisingi egy’okwekuuma n’obugonvu n’omusajja okukozesa obubi obuyinza bwe olw’okutuukiriza by’ayagala, kiyinza okwonoona amaka. Omusajja ebiseera ebimu ayinza okubeera mu mbeera ey’okukoowa ng’ali ku mulimu.

Bw’abeera mu mbeera eyo aba teyeetaaga kusanga busanzi waka omukyala amutegeera era amubudaabuda kyokka naye era liba ddembe lye. Ku ludda olulala, buba bwetaavu na ddembe eby’omukazi, oyo alindirira bba awaka olunaku lwonna, na ddembe lye okufuna ekisa okuva mu ye n’akabugumu ng’atuuse eka. Buli muntu mu maka ateekeddwa okumanya eddembe lye n’obuvunaanyizibwa bwe mu maaso ga Allah Oweekitiibwa.

Omusingi gwokka oguyinza okuyimirizaawo essanyu eryannamaddala n’okusanyuka mu maka gwe mukwano ku buli ludda n’okuwanngana ekitiibwa.

(Lindirira ebyeyongerayo mu katabo kaffe akanaddako)

Amaka agatudde entende Jjana ya ku nsi

Amaka amasanyufu

Abataka Baganyi Etteeka Ly’Obufumbo – Jjajja Nakirembeka WaliggoBya Bakkabulindi kagimu

BuLAnGE – Omukubiriza w’olukiiko lwa Bataka mu Buganda jjajjaffe Eng. Allan Nakirembeka Waliggo agambye nti ‘tewali ngeri yonna gyetujja kuwagiramu tteeka ly’obufumbo era tewali kubuusaabuusibwa kwona nti ebbago eryo lyaretebwa ku lujjuliro nga bbisi.’

Ebyo jjajja yabyogedde ng’aliwamu n’abakulu b’obusolya abalala ku mukolo ogw’okutongoza olukiiko lwa Baganda Nkobazambogo olugya olwabadde mu luggya lwa Bulange e Mengo u wiki gyetukubye amabega. Wasswa Willy Baligezza yalondeddwa nga ssentebe omuggya, Ssekabira Godfrey nga omuwanika ne Ndugga Viane ye muwandiisi waalwo.

Jjajja yawadde eky’okulabirako n’agamba nti abaleeta ebbago eryo balabikako nga omukyala ajjula emmere mu bugenderevu nga teyidde, wayinza okubeerawo oluyombo olulala olutali lwa mmere lwayagala okuzikiza nga terunakoleera obusungu bwa bba n’okuyomba kweyandiyombye ku nsonga eri gyembagambye buggwere muky’okusosootola emmere embisi, olwo nno waamalira okwecwacwaana olw’emmere ettayidde nga noluyombo olutali

lwa mmere omaze okulwerabira kyeyayise “kubaggya ku mulamwa”.

Mu ngeri yeemu jjajja Nakirembeka yalabudde abo bonna abalowooza okuwera ekibiina ky’Abaganda Nkobazambogo nti, balinga abalagiddwa okukuula erinnyo lya Goonya ng’ogirumbye mu mazzi nti tebajja kukisobolerako ddala.

Jjajja yasiimye abavubuka ba

Nkobazambogo olw’empisa gyebalaga mu buli kyebakola gamba engeri gyebakyusaamu obukulembeze mu kwaagala, mumirembe, awatali kubba bululu, awatali kuyiwa musaayi, kutiisaatiisa besimbyewo wadde abawagizi baabwe,wadde okubaligita emigobante, awatali kusindikirizibwa - anti n’azina obulungi ava mu diiro.

Mu ngeri yeemu jjajja Nakirembeka y’asabye abavubuka ba Nkobazambogo okweewala endwadde ezisobola okweewalika wamu n’okwagalana okwamazima eri abo bebaba basazeewo okubeera nabo, olw’ensonga ebiseera bya Buganda ebiriwo n’ebyo ebijja mu maaso byesigamye ku bbo. Yakutte mu kawaliggo najjamu kavu wa mitwalo kkumi bajeyambise mukuddukanya emirimu gy’ekibiina.

Ate ye minisita w’bavubuka n’emirimu Owek. Florence Bagunywa Nkalubo yasabye ba nnankobazambogo okweewala okubeera mu ngambo wamu okusiiga banaabwe enziro, wabula bettanire kuweereza era n’abasaba okukuuma ennono y’abajjajjaffe ey’okuwa abakulu ebityibwa.

Ate ye omubaka wa Lubaga ey’omumambuka omukulu Kasibante Moses yasiimye nnyo bana Nkobazambogo olw’okukyusanga obukulembezebwabwe mu biseera ebigere awatali kusindiikirizibwa.

Omukolo gw’egumu gwetabiddwako abakulu b’ebika bano; Omutaka Ssanje Ssenkusu ow’ekika Ky’enkusu, Luwonko w’ekika ky’ekiwere, Kibungo ow’enkerebwe, Gguluddene Mutasingwa ow’embwa, Kibondwe ow’ensuma, Mutesaasira ow’engo n’abalala bangi.

Jjajja Nakirembeka ne Jjajja Omukyaala. (Tterekero)

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